Toucans and Hornbills
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Toucans have disproportionately large bills that are light and spongy inside. These allow them to reach and pluck fruit from high twigs at the end of branches.
Keel-billed Toucan
Toco Toucan
Channel-billed Toucan
White-throated Toucan
Red-billed Toucan
Saffron Toucanet
Black-necked Aracari
Green Aracari (m)
Green Aracari (f)
Curl-crested Aracari
Chestnut-eared Aracari
Pale-billed Aracari
Barbets
Many Hornbills have a disproportionately large "casque" on their horn-shaped bill. Hornbills also have physiological and behavioural differences to other birds. In addition to the casque (on some), they have their first two neck vertebrae fused to support bills, have long eyelashes and different kidneys. In all but Ground Hornbills, the female seals herself in a tree cavity with mud and sticks to incubate and raise young, leaving a small hole for the male to feed them.
Southern Ground Hornbill
Southern Ground Hornbill
Abyssinian Ground (m)
Abyssinian Ground (f)
Great (Indian/Pied) Hornbill
Great Indian (f)
Rufous Hornbill
Rhinoceros Hornbill
Sulawesi Wrinkled (m)
Knobbed Hornbill (m)
Knobbed Hornbill (f)
Wrinkled Hornbill (m)
Sunda Wrinkled (f)
Writhed Hornbill (m)
Writhed Hornbill (f)
Papuan Hornbill (m)
Papuan Hornbill (f)
Blyth's Hornbill (m)
Blyth's (f)
Wreathed Hornbill (m)
Wreathed Hornbill (f)
Oriental Pied
Malayan Black (m)
Malayan Black (f)
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
Trumpeter Hornbill
Western Piping Hornbill
Black & White Casqued
Black-casqued Hornbill
Visayan Tarictic (m)
Visayan Tarictic (f)
Luzon Tarictic
Mindanao Tarictic (f)
Sulawesi Tarictic (m)
Sulawesi Tarictic (f)
West African Pied Hornbill
White-crested Hornbill
Von der Deckens' (m)
Von der Deckens' (f)
Red-billed Hornbill
Crowned Hornbill
Grey Hornbill
Small/Med. Landbirds
Parrots
Large Landbirds
Raptors & Vultures
Ducks, Geese, Swans
other Water
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