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Female great hornbill Hornbills are birds in the families Bucerotidae and Bucorvidae. There are currently 62 extant species of hornbills recognised by the International Ornithologists' Union, two in Bucorvidae and 60 in Bucerotidae. Many species of fossil hornbills are known from the Miocene onwards; however, their exact number and taxonomy are unsettled due to ongoing discoveries. Conventions ...
Narcondam hornbill: Narcondam Rhyticeros subruficollis: Plain-pouched hornbill: southern Myanmar, adjacent parts of western Thailand and northern Peninsular Malaysia Rhyticeros undulatus: Wreathed hornbill: north-eastern India and Bhutan, east and south through mainland Southeast Asia and the Greater Sundas in Indonesia Rhyticeros everetti ...
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The eastern long-tailed hornbill (Horizocerus cassini) is a species of bird in the hornbill family Bucerotidae found in humid forests of West Africa. It was formerly considered to be conspecific with the western long-tailed hornbill ( Horizocerus albocristatus ) with the English name "white-crested hornbill".
The eastern dwarf hornbill (Horizocerus granti) is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae. It is native to the Congo Basin . It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of the western dwarf hornbill ( Horizocerus hartlaubi ) with the English name "black dwarf hornbill".
A male wreathed hornbill was fitted with a GPS tracking unit in Pakke Tiger Reserve during the breeding season; it moved a mean minimum daily distance of 24.8 km (15.4 mi) and dispersed seeds for up to 10.8 km (6.7 mi) from its nesting site. [21] Home ranges of the wreathed hornbill and other hornbill species overlap in several range countries.
The two wood hoopoe genera, Phoeniculus and Rhinopomastus, appear to have diverged about 10 million years ago, so some systematists treat them as separate subfamilies or even separate families. [ 7 ] Extinct Messelirrisoridae and Laurillardiidae families were both considered to be stem groups of a previously categorized Upupiformes order prior ...
The Narcondam hornbill (Rhyticeros narcondami) is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae. It is endemic to the Indian island of Narcondam in the Andamans. Males and females have a distinct plumage. The Narcondam hornbill has the smallest home range out of all the species of Asian hornbills.