Hornbills Sentence Examples

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  • Several large hornbills inhabit the highest trees in the forest.

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  • This is devoted to the very distinct and not nearly-allied groups of hornbills and of birds which for want of a better name we must call " Chatterers," and is illustrated, like those works of which a notice immediately follows, by coloured plates, done in what was then considered to be the highest style of art and by the best draughtsmen procurable.

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  • Cuckoos are abundant, some of them of lovely plumage, also rollers, kingfishers and hornbills.

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  • We then headed for a site near Faraba Banta, but couldn't find any Abyssinian Ground hornbills.

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  • In about 15 minutes we found a pair of the Prince Ruspoli's Turaco in a fruiting tree with lots of Silvery-cheeked hornbills.

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  • On the east coast peafowl are found, and throughout the interior the argus pheasant, the firebacked pheasant, the blue partridge, the adjutantbird, several kinds of heron and crane, duck, teal, cotton-teal, snipe, wood-pigeon, green-pigeon of several varieties, swifts, swallows pied-robins, hornbills, parakeets, fly-catchers, nightjars, and many other kinds of bird are met with frequently.

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  • The male of the hornbills, Bucerotinae, feeds his mate, which is imprisoned, or walled-up in a hollow tree, during the whole time of incubation, by regorging his food.

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  • Of the 12 species of hornbills not one occurs outside of the Philippines.

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  • Up here Wreathed hornbills were seen flying over the immensly dense mountain slopes.

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