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Hornbill was used as the official mascot of one of Malaysia's political parties, the Democratic Action Party. The Rhinoceros hornbill is the official state animal of Sarawak, a Malaysian state located in Borneo. The great hornbill, a member of the hornbill family, is the official state bird of Kerala, an Indian state. The species is rated ...
The great hornbill is called homrai in Nepal and banrao in Mussoorie, both meaning "King of the Jungle". [47] It is the official state bird of the Indian states of Kerala and Arunachal Pradesh . [ 48 ]
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 ...
Bucerotiformes / b j uː ˈ s ɛ r ə t ɪ f ɔːr m iː z / is an order of birds that contains the hornbills, ground hornbills, hoopoes and wood hoopoes. [1] These birds were previously classified as members of Coraciiformes .
The red-billed hornbills are a group of hornbills found in the savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa.They are now usually split into five species, the northern red-billed hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus), western red-billed hornbill (T. kempi), Tanzanian red-billed hornbill (T. ruahae), southern red-billed hornbill (T. rufirostris) and Damara red-billed hornbill (T. damarensis), but ...
Hornbills are secondary cavity nesters, meaning that they typically do not excavate their own nesting sites but use those created by other birds or by branches breaking off. [7] [12] Because hornbills rely on pre-excavated cavities, selection of suitable nest-sites within their environment has major impacts on breeding success. [12]
The Visayan hornbill is now placed in the genus Penelopides that was introduced in 1849 by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in a plate of the hornbills. [10] [11] The origin of the generic name is uncertain but it may be a combination of the Latin pene meaning "almost" or "nearly", the Ancient Greek lophos meaning "crest" and -oideēs ...
The type species was subsequently designated as the Visayan hornbill (Penelopides panini) by the English zoologist George Gray. [3] [4] The origin of Reichenbach's generic name is uncertain. It may be a combination of the Latin pene meaning "almost" or "nearly", the Ancient Greek lophos meaning "crest" and -oidēs "resembling". [5]