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HORNBILLs
Order Bucerotiformes Family Bucerotidae
The order
Bucerotiformes contains two suborders: Buceroti (hornbills) and Upupi (hoopoe and wood hoopoes).
Hornbills are a family of bird found in tropical and subtropical Africa and Asia . They are characterized by a long, down-curved bill which is frequently brightly-coloured and sometimes has a casque on
the upper mandible. Hornbills are the only birds in which the first two neck vertebrae are fused together; this probably provides a more stable platform for carrying the bill. The large bill assists in
fighting, preening, and constructing the nest, as well as catching prey. A feature unique to the hornbills is the casque, a hollow structure that runs along the upper mandible. In some species it is barely
perceptible and appears to serve no function beyond reinforcing the bill. In other species it is quite large, is reinforced with bone, and has openings between the hollow centre serving as a resonator
for calls.
The family is omnivorous, feeding on fruit 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. They are monogamous breeders nesting in natural cavities in trees and sometimes cliffs.
Genus Aceros - 1 species
Hornbill,_Rufous-necked Aceros nipalensis Found: southeast Asia
Image by: 1)
Ron_Knight 2)
Kalyanvarma 3)
Francesco Veronesi - Bhutan
1) Pair
Genus Anorrhinus
Hornbill,_Brown also
Austen's Brown Hornbill Anorrhinus austeni Found; northeast India south to Vietnam and Thailand
Image by: 1)
Pkspks 2, 3, 4) LonelyShrimp- Thailand
Hornbill,_Bushy-crested Anorrhinus galeritus Found: southeast Asia, Indonesia, Malaysia
1)
Tony_Castro David_Cook - Borneo
Hornbill,_Rusty-cheeked also
Tickell's Hornbill Anorrhinus tickelli
Found: India, Burma, Thailand
Image by: 1)
Mike 2)
Jason Thompson
Genus Anthracoceros
Hornbill,_Black Anthracoceros malayanus Found; Asia
Image by: 1)
Mahbob
Yusof 2)
Neil Phillips- the London Zoo 3)
Petra_Karstedt
1) Female 2, 3) Male
Hornbill,_Malabar_Pied Anthracoceros coronatus Found: Asia
Image by: 1)
Steve Garvie - Sri Lanka 2)
Gavin_White 3, 4)
Thimindu Goonatillake - Sri Lanka
1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male
Hornbill,_Oriental Pied Anthracoceros albirostris Found: Asia
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Mahbob Yusof 2)
John J. Mosesso 3)
LonelyShrimp - Thailand 4)
Dick Daniels - Bronx Zoo
Hornbill,_Palawan Anthracoceros marchei Endemic to Palawan island of he Philippines
Image by: 1)
Limchiu
Hornbill,_Sulu Anthracoceros montani Found: Philippines
Image by:
1)
Biodiversity_Heritage_Library 2)
Lorenzo_Vinciguerra
Genus Berenicornis - 1 species
Hornbill,_White-crowned Berenicornis comatus Found: southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia
Image by:
1, 2) Choy Wai Mun - Nalaysia
3)
Tapir Girl - Franklin Park Zoo
1) Juvenile
Genus Buceros
Hornbill,_Great also
Great Indian Hornbill Buceros bicornis Found: Asia
Image by: 1)
Joachim Muller 2)
Dick Daniels -
Miami Zoo 3)
Stavenn - Bronx Zoo 4)
Lip Kee - Malaysia
Hornbill,_Helmeted Buceros vigil Found: Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia
Image by: 1)
Farquhar 2)
Doug Janson 3)
Martin Hauskrecht 4)
Marc_Ameels - Malaysia
Hornbill,_Rhinoceros Buceros rhinoceros Found: Asia
Image by: 1)
Perry Quan - Dallas Zoo 2)
Steve_Wilson 3)
Dick Daniels -
National Aviary 4)
Sandy Cole -
National Aviary
1, 2) Female (white iris) 3, 4) Male
Hornbill,_Rufous Buceros hydrocorax Found; Philippines
Image by:
1)
Frank Wouters 2)
Fiorellino 3)
Magalhaes 4)
NCAA_Official
1) Juvenile
Genus Bycanistes
Some include the genus
Bycanistes in Family
Bucorvidae along with the Ground Hornbills.
The
Bycanistes hornbills has black and white plumage. The plumage of the sexes is similar, but the casque of the male is larger than that of the female. They are found in Africa. They have often been included in the genus
Ceratogymna,
Hornbill,_Black-and-white-casqued also Gray-cheeked Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus Found: central and western Africa
Image by:
1, 2) Nik_Borrow - Uganda 3)
Dante Alighieri - Bronx Zoo 4)
Bernard_Dupont
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Hornbill,_Brown-cheeked Bycanistes cylindricus Found: Africa
Image by:
1)
John Gerrard Keulemans 2)
Dimitry_Naumenko 3)
Hans Olofsson - Uganda
Hornbill,_Piping Bycanistes fistulator Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 2) Dick Daniels -
World of Birds
, South Africa 3)
Moni Sertel
Hornbill,_Silvery-cheeked Bycanistes brevis Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Katy Silberger 2, 3, 4) Dick Daniels -
Sylvan Heights 5)
Sandy Cole -
Sylvan Heights 6)
Nik_Borrow - Tanzania
1) Female 2 - 6) Male
Hornbill,_Trumpeter Bycanistes bucinator Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 2) Dick Daniels -
World of Birds, South Africa 3)
Ian White 4)
Lip Kee - Botswana
1) Female 2, 3, 4) Male
Hornbill,_White-thighed Bycanistes albotibialis Found: Africa
Image by:
1)
John Gerrard Keulemans 2)
Sergey_Pisarevskiy - Uganda
Genus Ceratogymna
Hornbill,_Black-casqued Ceratogymna atrata Found:
Africa
Image by: 1)
Daderot 2)
Nik_Borrow - Ghana
3, 4) Dick Daniels -
World of Birds, South Africa 5)
Bernard_Dupont - South Africa 6)
Josh_More
1) Female - left, Male - right 2, 3, 4) Female
5, 6) Male
Hornbill,_Yellow-casqued Ceratogymna elata Found: coastal regions of west Africa
Image by:
1)
Denise Chan 2)
Josh_More
1) Female
2) Male
Genus Ocyceros
Hornbill,_Indian_Gray Ocyceros birostris Found: Indian subcontinent
Image by:
1, 2) J M Garg -
Hyderabad, India 3)
Tarique_Sani 4)
photosinframes
Hornbill,_Malabar_Gray Ocyceros griseus Found: Southern
India
Image by:
1, 3) Lip Key 2) Rathika Ramasamy 4)
Nagesh_Kamath
1) Female 2, 3) Male
Hornbill,_Sri_Lanka_Gray Ocyceros gingalensis Endemic to Sri Lanka
Image by: 1)
Rafael_Vila 2, 3) Gihan_Jayaweera
Genus Penelopides
Hornbill,_Luzon Penelopides manillae Found: Philippines
Image by: 1)
Mark A Harper 2)
Len_Worthington 3)
BS Thurner Hof
1) Female 2, 3) Male
Hornbill,_Mindanao Penelopides affinis Found: Philippines
Image by:
1)
John Gerrard Keulemans 2)
Berstein49 3)
Blake Matheson 3)
Jovic_Ferrer
1) Female 2, 3) Male
Hornbill,_Samar Penelopides samarensis Found: Philippines
Image by: 1)
Leif_Gabrielsen 2)
Maxime_Thué
1) Pair 2) Male
Hornbill,_Visayan Penelopides panini Found: Philippines
Image by: 1)
Magalhães 2)
Steven_Wilson 3)
Tim Ellis - Chester Zoo
1) Pair 2, 3) Male
Genus Rhabdotorrhinus
Hornbill,_Sulawesi also
Sulawesi Tarictic Hornbill Rhabdotorrhinus exarhatus Found: Indonesia
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Dick Daniels - San Diego Zoo 2)
Chris
huh - Whipsnade Zoo, Bedfordshire, England 3)
TR_Shankar_Raman
1)
Penelopides exarhatus sanfordi 1) Female 2, 3) Male
Hornbill,_Walden's also
Writhe-billed Hornbill Rhabdotorrhinus waldeni also
Aceros waldeniFound: Philippines
Image by:
1)
Prof. Curio 2
, 3) Callen Bentley
Hornbill,_Wrinkled Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus Found: southeast Asia
Image by: 1) Phalinn 2)
Linda_De_Volder 3)
Dick Daniels - San Diego Zoo 4)
Erik van Roekel 5)
Tony_Castro
1, 2) Female 3 - 5) Male
Hornbill,_Writhed Rhabdotorrhinus leucocephalus Found; Philippines
Image by: 1)
John Gerrard Keulemans 2)
Francesco Veronesi 3)
Vanessa_David 3)
Patricia Casteren
1) Male on left 2) Female 3) Male
Genus Rhyticeros
Many in genus
Rhyticeros were formerly placed in
Aceros.
Hornbill,_Blyth's Rhyticeros plicatus Found: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea
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1)
Cifor 2)
yumievriwan 3)
Stephen Hanafin 4)
Jerry Oldenettel - Papua New Guinea
1, 2) Female
3) Male 4) Pair
Hornbill,_Knobbed Rhyticeros cassidix Found: Philippines
Image by: 1)
WarriorWoman 2)
Mario Pineda - Los Angeles Zoo 3)
Lip Kee - North Sulawesi 4)
Asim_Bharwani
1) Pair 2) Female 3, 4) Male
Hornbill,_Narcondam Rhyticeros narcondami Found: Indian island of Narcondam
Image by: 1)
Shyamai 2)
Niranjan_Sant 3)
Jan Veenstra
2) Female 3) Male
Hornbill,_Plain-pouched Rhyticeros subruficollis Found: southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia
Image by: 1)
John Gerrard Keulemans 2)
KS Kong 3)
Vikali_Kupotea
Hornbill,_Sumba Rhyticeros everetti Found: forests of Sumba in Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia
Image by: 1)
Stavenn 2)
Lorenzo_Vinciguerra 3)
Ingo_Waschkies 4)
Peter_Ericsson
1, 2) Female 3, 4) Male
Hornbill,_Wreathed Rhyticeros undulatus Found: India, southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesia
Image by:
1)
Sivain de Munck 2)
Magalhaes 3, 6, 7) Dick Daniels -
Sylvan Heights 4)
Sandy Cole 5)
Jarod 8)
Jerry Oldenettel - Thailand
1) Male - left; female - right 2, 3, 4) Female 5 - 9) Male
Genus Tockus
Hornbill,_African_Pied Tockus fasciatus Found:
Africa
Image by: 1)
Harald_Süpfle 2)
Nik Borrow - Guinea
3, 5) Matti_Suopajärvi - Gambia 4)
Anneli
Moeller
Hornbill,_Black_Dwarf Tockus hartlaubi Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Harald_Süpfle 2)
Daniel Giraud Elliot
Hornbill,_Bradfield's Tockus bradfieldi Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Harald_Supfle 2)
Charlie Westerinen - Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe 3) I
an White - Botswana
Hornbill,_Crowned Tockus alboterminatus Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Harald_Supfle 2)
Derek Keats 3) Sergey_Yeliseev 4)
4028mdk09 4)
Nik_Borrow -
Uganda
Hornbill,_Damara_Red-billed Tockus damarensis Found; Nambia
Image by: 1)
Hans Hillewaert - Namibia 2)
Ron_Knight 3)
Tim_Ellis
Hornbill,_Eastern_Yellow-billed Tockus flavirostris Found:
Africa
Image by: 1)
Eric - Discovery Cove, Orlando, Florida 2)
Greg Hume - Cincinnati Zoo 3)
Steve_Garvie 4)
Nik_Borrow - Ethiopia
Hornbill,_Gray also
African Gray Hornbill Tockus nasutus Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 6) Charles_J_Sharp - Namibia, Gambia 2)
Arno Meinties
3)
Darren
Bellerby - Kenya
4, 5) Nik_Borrow - Ethiopia , Ghana
1 - 4) Female 5, 6) Male
Hornbill,_Hemprich's Tockus hemprichii Found: Africa
Image by: 1) Harald_Supfle
Steve Evans Ethopia 2)
Alastair Rae 3)
Michael and Helen Cox - Kenya
Hornbill,_Jackson's Tockus jacksoni Found: Africa
Image by:
1, 4) Charles_J_Sharp - Kenya
2, 5) Steve Garvie 3) Lip_kee 6)
Mathieu_Breitenstein - Kenya
1 - 3) Female 4 - 6) Male
Hornbill,_Monteiro's Tockus monteiri Found: Namibia
Image by: 1)
Gregoire_Dubois 2)
Francesco Veronesi -
Etosha, Namibi 3)
Jeffrey Hotson - Namibia 4)
Nanosanchez
Hornbill,_Northern_Red-billed Tockus erythrorhynchus Found: Africa
Image by: 1)
Gary Stolz - Kenya 2)
Ron Knight - Cameroon 3)
Charles_J_Sharp - Kenya 4)
Nik_Borrow - Ethiopia
Hornbill,_Pale-billed Tockus pallidirostris Found; Africa
Image by:
1)
Peter_Steward - Malawi
2, 3) Nik_Borrow - Malawi
Hornbill,_Southern_Red-billed Tockus rufirostris Found: southern Africa.
Image by: 1)
Dick Daniels - Kruger National Park, South Africa 2)
Arno_Meintjes 3)
Darren - South Africa
Hornbill,_Southern Yellow-billed Tockus leucomelas Found:
Africa
Image by: 1)
Derek_Keats - South Africa
2, 3) Dick - Kruger National Park, South Africa 4)
Sandy Cole in South Africa 5)
Cristiano Crolle - Kalahari desert, Namibia
Hornbill,_Tanzanian Red-billed Tockus ruahae Found: Tanzania
Image by:
1, 2) Dick Daniels- Tanzaia 3)
Nevit Dilmen - Tanzania 4)
Nik_Borrow - Tanzania
Hornbill,_von der Decken's Tockus deckeni Found:
Africa
Image by
1, 4)
Steven G Johnson - the London Zoo
2, 3)
Dick Daniels -
Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo 6) Dick - Tanzania 5)
Nik_Borrow - Tanzania
1, 2, 3) Female 4, 5, 6) Male
Hornbill,_Western Red-billed Tockus kempi Found: Senegal and Gambia to southern Mauritania and western Mali
Image by:
1)
Allan Hopkins - Gambia 2)
Thomas Brown 3)
Charles J Sharp 4)
Nik_Borrow - Senegal
Genus Tropicranus - 1 species
Hornbill, White-crested also
Long-tailed Hornbill also
Tropicranus albocristatus Found:
Africa
Image by: 1)
Sandy Cole - San Diego Zoo 2,
4) Dick Daniels - Bronx Zoo, San Diego Zoo
3) Charlie Westerinen
GROUND HORNBILLs
Order Bucerotiformes Family Bucorvidae