#Bucerotidae

[herpsandbirds]

Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros), family Bucerotidae, order Bucerotiformes, Perak, Malaysia

photograph by Winnie Ooi

[snototter]

A southern red billed hornbill (Tockus rufirostris) preens itself in Kruger National Park, South Africa

by Sumarie Slabber

[birdblues]

Von der Decken’s Hornbill

[fullfrontalbirds]

Blyth's Hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus)

© Doug Gochfeld

[critter-captures]

Great hornbill (Buceros bicornis) (female), family Bucerotidae (hornbills)

A species with mild sexual dimorphism, males and females can be told apart by their eyes, the skin around their eyes, and the underside of the casque on their head. Females have pale blueish eyes with pink skin around them, while males have red eyes with black skin. Females also have red on the back of the casque, while males have black on the underside of the casque, both front and back.

Avifauna, taken July 2024

[birding-with-tortoise]

Malabar Grey Hornbill (Ocyceros griseus)

Sighted at Goa, India

[morgansram]

Helmeted Hornbill Skull

[podartists]

Doppelhornvogel, Dichoceros bicornis | Die Vögel (1913) | Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884) | Biodiversity Heritage Library

[andmaybegayer]

Two of them

two of them

Yellow-billed hornbills in the Kruger National Park.

[travelella]

Red-billed Hornbill - Memphis Zoo, Prentiss Place, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Joshua J. Cotten

Common Name: Red-billed hornbill

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Aves

Order: Bucerotiformes

Family: Bucerotidae

Genus Species: Tockus erythrorhynchus

These birds can be found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabw

The red-bill lives in open savanna, woodland and thorn scrub in sub-Saharan Africa. It is an omnivore, eating fruit, insects and small animals. Hornbills are named because the shape of their bill reminded early people of cattle horns.

[arthistoryanimalia]

Oops, yesterday was #LoveHornbillsDay and I missed it, so here are a bunch of them to make up for it!

Hornbills plate from page 532 of Edinburgh Journal of Natural History and of the Physical Sciences, 1835.

[herpsandbirds]

Rufous-Necked Hornbills (Aceros nipalensis), female and male, family Bucerotidae, order Bucerotiformes, Bhutan

photograph by Pushkarna Sachin

[snototter]

An oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris) in Baluran National Park, Indonesia

by Oleg Chernyshov

[birdblues]

Great Hornbill

[fullfrontalbirds]

Blyth's Hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus)

© Stephen Davies

[critter-captures]

Wreathed hornbill (Rhyticeros undulatus) (male), family Bucerotidae (hornbills)

Like many birds, the wreathed hornbill has a nictitating membrane: a third eyelid which blinks sideways, used to protect and moisten the eye (see third picture).

While male wreathed hornbills are brightly colored, females are much plainer in appearance. Their plumage is uniformly black, lacking the white and rufous markings of the male, and their throats are blue.

Ouwehands Dierenpark, taken June 2024