#bucerotidae

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

photograph by Winnie Ooi

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[2889/11080] Damara red-billed hornbill - Tockus damarensis

Order: Bucerotiformes Family: Bucerotidae (hornbills)

Photo credit: Chris Wiley via Macaulay Library

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

by Oleg Chernyshov

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Von der Decken’s Hornbill

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Blyth's Hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus)

© Doug Gochfeld

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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

[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.

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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.

[jptattooart]

Impression of the ying yang birds . . . #orientaltattoo #Phoenix #bucerosrhinoceros #bucerotidae #Phoenixtattoo #birdtattoo #tattoodesign #TattooDaily #dailyart #tattoo #tattooartist #tattooist #tattooer #tattooartwork #instattoo #instatattoo #asianinkandart #worldoftattoo #hktattoo #tattoohk #hktattooartist #hongkongtattoo #hongkongtattooshop #香港紋身 #刺青 #鳳凰 #犀鳥 #馬來犀鳥 #タトゥー #타투디자인

[herpsandbirds]

Southern Yellow-billed Hornbills (Tockus leucomelas), family Bucerotidae, order Bucerotiformes, Sabi Sands, South Africa

photograph by Michael Moss

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[1542/10977] Blyth's Hornbill - Rhyticeros plicatus

Order: Bucerotiformes Family: Bucerotidae (hornbills)

Photo credit: Dana Cameron via Macaulay Library

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A female Von der Decken's hornbill (Tockus deckeni) in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, Africa

by Sue Roehl

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Great Hornbill

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Blyth's Hornbill (Rhyticeros plicatus)

© Stephen Davies