Rhinoceros hornbill
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The rhinoceros hornbill is a large species of forest hornbill. In captivity, it can live for up to 35 years. It is found in lowland and montane, tropical and subtropical climates and in mountain rain
Buceros rhinoceros Singapore Zoo pair 8a
The skull of B. r. silvestris
A female eating a peanut
Male at the National Aviary, Pittsburgh. Males have red irises.
Buceros
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Buceros, from Ancient Greek βοῦς, meaning "ox", and κέρας, meaning "horn", is a genus of large Asian hornbills.
Rhinoceros hornbill
…described by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in 1758 in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae. He placed it with the great hornbill in the genus Buceros and coined the binomial name Buceros rhinoceros, where he specified the location as India. The genus name comes from Ancient Greek βοῦς boûs meaning…
Hornbill 2
Great Hornbill Goa
Buceros hydrocorax eating