0 a bird with a large, curved, often brightly coloured beak, found in tropical and subtropical areas: --
Unlike many fruit-eating hornbills, it is sedentary, and pairs maintain a territory.
At one time or another, they have been allied with owls, swifts, kingfishers, hoopoes, mousebirds, hornbills, rollers, bee-eaters, woodpeckers, trogons and hummingbirds.
Their common name, tarictic hornbills, is an onomatopoetic reference to the main call of several of them.
The surrounding forest has been known to house at least four species of birds: hornbills, parrots, woodpeckers and wild ducks.
Female southern ground hornbills are smaller and have violet-blue skin on their throats.
Among the many birds are groups such as penguins, rheas, waterfowl, eagles, owls, pelicans, flamingos, pheasants, parrots, hornbills, turacos and weavers.
Birds that are mostly hunted are hornbills, doves, and pigeons.
Animals in the area are langurs, muntjac, tapirs and hornbills.