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  2. Southern ground hornbill - Wikipedia

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    Southern ground hornbill groups are very vocal: contact is made by calls in chorus which can usually be heard at distances of up to 3 kilometres (1.86 mi). [19] The calls allow each group to maintain its territory, which must be as large as 100 square kilometres (40 sq mi) even in the best habitat.

  3. 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 ...

  4. Southern yellow-billed hornbill - Wikipedia

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    The southern yellow-billed hornbill (Tockus leucomelas) is a hornbill found in southern Africa. Yellow-billed hornbills feed mainly on the ground, where they forage for seeds, small insects, spiders and scorpions. This hornbill species is a common and widespread resident of dry thornveldt and broad-leafed woodlands.

  5. Southern red-billed hornbill - Wikipedia

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    The southern red-billed hornbill (Tockus rufirostris) is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae, which is native to the savannas and dryer bushlands of southern Africa. It is replaced by a near-relative, the Damara red-billed hornbill, in the arid woodlands of western Namibia. All five red-billed hornbills were formerly considered ...

  6. Ground hornbill - Wikipedia

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    The genus Bucorvus was introduced, originally as a subgenus, by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1830 with the Abyssinian ground hornbill Bucorvus abyssinicus as the type species. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The generic name is derived from the name of the genus Buceros introduced by Carl Linnaeus in 1758 for the Asian hornbills where corvus is the Latin ...

  7. Southern rufous hornbill - Wikipedia

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    The southern rufous hornbill was formerly a subspecies of the rufous hornbill. The outer half of the southern rufous hornbill's bill is marked with a pale yellow. The species measures approximately 60–65 cm (24–26 in). Males weigh around 1,345–1,612 g (47.4–56.9 oz) and females around 1,413–1,662 g (49.8–58.6 oz). [3]

  8. Hornbill - Wikipedia

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    A hornbill named Zazu is the king's adviser and one of the characters in The Lion King franchise, voiced by Rowan Atkinson in the original 1994 version and John Oliver in the remade 2019 version. [38] Hornbill was used as the official mascot of one of Malaysia's political parties, the Democratic Action Party.

  9. 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 ...