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Yellow-billed Hornbill

The eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill (Tockus flavirostrus) is an African Hornbill. It is a medium sized bird, with length between 48 to 60 cm, characterized by a long yellow beak.

Yellow-billed Hornbill

Eastern Yellow- billed hornbill have a white belly, grey neck, and black back with abundant white spots and stripes. They feed mainly on the ground surface, where they forage for seeds, small insects, spiders and scorpions. Termites and ants are a preferred food source in the dry season. In the wild they can feed cooperatively with dwarf mongoose. The birds help watch for predators and the mongoose stir up insects.

Females lay 3 to 4 white eggs in their nest cavities and incubate them for about 25 days. Juveniles take about 45 days to mature. This hornbill is a common, widespread resident of the dry thorn fields and broad-leafed woodlands of inland southern to northeastern Africa. Frequently they can be sighted along roads.