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Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill (Tockus leucomelas)

Yellow-Billed Hornbill, Botswana
Yellow-Billed Hornbill, Botswana

About Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill (Tockus leucomelas)

  • Kingdom: Animals
  • Phylum: Chordates
  • Class: Birds
  • Order: Bucerotiformes
  • Family: Hornbills

The southern yellow-billed hornbill is a hornbill found in southern Africa. Yellow-billed hornbills feed mainly on the ground, where they forage for seeds, small insects, spiders and scorpions. This hornbill species is a common and widespread resident of dry thornveldt and broad-leafed woodlands. They can often be seen along roads and water courses.

Source: Wikipedia

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Visits

  • 2002-12-06

    Chobe National Park - Suvuti, Botswana
    Image from 2002-12-06
  • 2002-12-08

    Moremi Game Reserve, Botswana
    Seen in our campsite.