A Tough Bird for an Unforgiving Habitat - Southern Yellow-Billed Hornbill (Tockus leucomelas) @ Etosha National Park, Namibia-9043
6/18/2024: Selected as the cover photo for the “Awesome Birds” Flickr group.
From Wikipedia:
The southern yellow-billed hornbill (Tockus leucomelas) 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.
These birds are near endemic to the dry savannas of southern Africa, where they can be found across all longitudes, from Angola and Namibia in the west to Mozambique and KwaZulu-Natal in the east, including Botswana, Zimbabwe and northern South Africa.
A Tough Bird for an Unforgiving Habitat - Southern Yellow-Billed Hornbill (Tockus leucomelas) @ Etosha National Park, Namibia-9043
6/18/2024: Selected as the cover photo for the “Awesome Birds” Flickr group.
From Wikipedia:
The southern yellow-billed hornbill (Tockus leucomelas) 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.
These birds are near endemic to the dry savannas of southern Africa, where they can be found across all longitudes, from Angola and Namibia in the west to Mozambique and KwaZulu-Natal in the east, including Botswana, Zimbabwe and northern South Africa.