- of barbet,
while hornbills (and
their close relatives the
ground hornbills) are
allied with the
hoopoes and wood-hoopoes.
Hornbills show considerable...
-
typical hornbills.
Females are
smaller than
males and have bluish-white
instead of red eyes,
although the
orbital skin is pinkish. Like
other hornbills, they...
- two groups, Indo-Malayan pied
hornbills and
black hornbills. A.
albirostris is
grouped under the Indo-Malayan pied
hornbills,
based on
plumage similarities...
- tall. Both
species are ground-dwelling,
unlike other hornbills. Also
unlike most
other hornbills, they are
carnivorous and feed on insects, snakes, other...
-
species of the
genus Bucorvus is the
Abyssinian ground hornbill, B. abyssinicus.
Southern ground hornbills are
carnivorous and hunt
mostly on the ground. Their...
-
although it will also eat
small animals such as
frogs and insects.
Wrinkled hornbills do not drink, but get the
water they need from
their food.
Their call...
-
Asian hornbill,
their body
weight appears to be
similar to that of the
great hornbill (and
considerably less than the
African ground hornbills). This...
-
Bucocerotidae (
Hornbills)". In Josep, del Hoyo; Andrew, Elliott; Sargatal,
Jordi (eds.).
Handbook of the
Birds of the World.
Volume 6,
Mousebirds to
Hornbills. Barcelona:...
- only 27
mature individual hornbills are
still believed to be
alive in the wild. This
makes it the most
endangered hornbill and one of the most endangered...
- T.G. (2007). "The rise of
Hornbills: Evolution, taxonomy, and morphology". The
Ecology and
Conservation of
Asian Hornbills:
Farmers of the Forest. Chicago:...