23 June 2009

Your basic bucorvid

The zoo always refers to these as "African ground hornbills"; I think it's Bucorvus abyssinicus rather than Bucorvus leadbeateri on the basis of the blue facial skin.
Darren Naish talks about these on Tetrapod Zoology not infrequently; link is to the most recent instance.

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