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  2. Southern ground hornbill - Wikipedia

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    Southern ground hornbills can be found from northern Namibia and Angola to northern South Africa and southern Zimbabwe to Burundi and Kenya. They require a savanna habitat with large trees for nesting and dense but short grass for foraging. [15] The southern ground hornbill is a vulnerable species, mainly confined to national reserves and ...

  3. Ground hornbill - Wikipedia

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    The ground hornbills (Bucorvidae) are a family of the order Bucerotiformes, with a single genus Bucorvus and two extant species. The family is endemic to sub-Saharan Africa: the Abyssinian ground hornbill occurs in a belt from Senegal east to Ethiopia, and the southern ground hornbill occurs in southern and East Africa.

  4. Hornbill - Wikipedia

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    Female great hornbill feeding on figs. Fruit forms a large part of the diet of forest hornbills. Hornbills are omnivorous birds, eating fruit, insects and small animals. They cannot swallow food caught at the tip of the beak as their tongues are too short to manipulate it, so they toss it back to the throat with a jerk of the head.

  5. List of hornbills - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  6. Fauna of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Hornbills, bee-eaters, rollers, kingfishers, the hoopoe and woodhoopoes are all common in the region. Hornbills The largest species is the southern ground hornbill. It occurs only in nature reserves. Other well-known species include the southern yellow-billed hornbill, the southern red-billed hornbill, the African grey hornbill and the ...

  7. Red-billed hornbill - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

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