Taxa

Bucerotiformes

Order

Citation Formats

General Reference

Nature Atlas. "Bucerotiformes." Accessed September 8, 2026. https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/order-bucerotiformes.

APA Style

Nature Atlas. (n.d.). Bucerotiformes. Retrieved September 8, 2026, from https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/order-bucerotiformes

BibTeX

@misc{natureatlas-bucerotiformes,
  author = {Nature Atlas},
  title = {Bucerotiformes},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://nature.interactiveatlas.org/taxa/order-bucerotiformes},
  note = {Accessed September 8, 2026}
}

Bucerotiformes is a bird order containing the hornbills, ground hornbills, hoopoes and wood hoopoes, distributed across Africa, Asia, Europe and Melanesia. Its members were previously classified within the order Coraciiformes before being split into their own order.

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