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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 ...
The wreathed hornbill is a monotypic taxon and is widely recognized as a member of Rhyticeros, the genus of hornbills with low wreathed casques. [6] Analysis of the mitochondrial genomes of eight hornbill species revealed that the wreathed hornbill is closely related with Aceros and the Visayan hornbill (Penelopides panini). [7]
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 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 poem Sabse Khatarnak by the Hindi poet Pash was included in the NCERT textbook for 11th standard Hindi students in 2006. In 2017, the BJP government affiliated RSS tried to remove it but failed. [28] [29] The NCERT made two controversial changes to the class XII political science textbook ‘Politics in India Since Independence’ in 2017.
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.
It is the heaviest, but not the longest, Asian hornbill. [9] [10] With the separation of the ground hornbills into a separate family, Bucorvidae, the great hornbill reigns as the heaviest of all typical hornbills. [9] [11] Females are smaller than males and have bluish-white instead of red eyes, although the orbital skin is pinkish. Like other ...