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Oriental pied-hornbill, Anthracoceros albirostris. Hornbills are a group of birds whose bill is shaped like a cow's horn, but without a twist, sometimes with a casque on the upper mandible. Frequently, the bill is brightly coloured. Great hornbill, Buceros bicornis; Indian gray hornbill, Ocyceros birostris (Ex)
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 hoopoe subspecies Saint Helena hoopoe and the Madagascar subspecies are sometimes elevated to a full species. 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 .
The National Library of Bangladesh (NLB; Bengali: বাংলাদেশ জাতীয় গ্রন্থাগার, romanized: Bānlādēśa jātīẏa granthāgāra) is the legal depository of all new books and other printed materials published in Bangladesh under the copyright law of Bangladesh.
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 ...
The Indian grey hornbill is a medium-sized hornbill, measuring around 61 cm (24 in) in length. [3] The upper parts are greyish brown and there is a slight trace of a pale supercilium. The ear coverts are darker. The flight feathers of the wing are dark brown with a whitish tip. The tail has a white tip and a dark subterminal band.
The rufous-necked hornbill (Aceros nipalensis) is a species of hornbill in Bhutan, northeastern India, especially in Arunachal Pradesh, Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. It is locally extinct in Nepal due to hunting and significant loss of habitat. [1] There are less than 10,000 adults left in the wild. [3]
The northern red-billed hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) is a species of hornbill in the family Bucerotidae. It is found from southern Mauritania through Somalia and northeast Tanzania . There are five species of red-billed hornbills recognized, but all five were once considered conspecific and some authorities still classify the others as ...