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Definition of Hornbills

Hornbill
Hornbill Horn"bill`, n. (Zo["o]l.) Any bird of the family Bucerotid[ae], of which about sixty species are known, belonging to numerous genera. They inhabit the tropical parts of Asia, Africa, and the East Indies, and are remarkable for having a more or less horn-like protuberance, which is usually large and hollow and is situated on the upper side of the beak. The size of the hornbill varies from that of a pigeon to that of a raven, or even larger. They feed chiefly upon fruit, but some species eat dead animals.

Meaning of Hornbills from wikipedia

- 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...
- species of the genus Bucorvus is the Abyssinian ground hornbill, B. abyssinicus. Southern ground hornbills are carnivorous and hunt mostly on the ground. Their...
- Asian hornbill, their body weight appears to be similar to that of the great hornbill (and considerably less than the African ground hornbills). This...
- flocks. The Walden's hornbills are cavity nesters and use natural or carved-out hollows in tree trunks for its nest. As other hornbills, they reproduce very...
- tall. Both species are ground-dwelling, unlike other hornbills. Also unlike most other hornbills, they are carnivorous and feed on insects, snakes, other...
- baskets. In the ground hornbills the females are partially sealed in using a mixture of mud and vegetation. In other hornbills the nesting female moult...
- Tangani Borneo Hornbills (2-habis)". iblindonesia.com (in Indonesian). 11 November 2023. Retrieved 1 December 2023. "Filosofi Logo Borneo Hornbills". iblindonesia...
- Successes of Hornbills of the West Visayan Faunal Region at the Talarak Foundation Inc. Kemp, A.C. (2001). "Family Bucerotidae (Hornbills)". In del Hoyo...