ground hornbill造句

• Ground hornbills are large, with adults around a metre tall.
• Their diet has some overlap with that of the southern ground hornbill.
• Female southern ground hornbills are smaller and have violet-blue skin on their throats.
• The zoo was the first in North America to successfully breed Leadbeater s ground hornbills.
• The southern ground hornbill is a vulnerable species, mainly confined to national reserves and national parks.
• In the ground hornbills the females are partially sealed in using a mixture of mud and vegetation.
• In North America captive Abyssinian ground hornbills have also been known to die because of West Nile Virus.
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• Ground hornbills are believed to reach maturity at six to seven years, but very few breed at this age.
• Nile crocodiles, warthogs, and Stanley cranes mixed with Leadbeater's ground hornbills are the first animals guests encounter.
• Temminck's coursers and ground hornbills may also be seen in this habitat, as will a number of swallows.
• Recent genetic data show that ground hornbills and " Bycanistes " form a clade outside the rest of the hornbill lineage.
• In other hornbills the nesting female moult their all flight feathers at once but this is not the case in the ground hornbills.
• Abyssinian ground hornbills invest a lot in their offspring and the fledged juveniles will remain with their parents for up to three years.
• Nests are almost always deep hollows in very old trees, though there exist reports ground hornbills have on occasions nested on rock faces.
• Southern ground hornbills very rarely drink : their range is limited at its western end by the lack of trees in which to build nests.
• Abyssinian ground hornbills are opportunist feeders, following ungulate herds and forest fires so that they can prey on small animals disturbed by the larger animals or flames.
• Recent genetic data shows that ground hornbills form a clade with " Bycanistes ", this clade being a sister taxon to the rest of the hornbill lineage.
• Seabirds, along with some Australian and Southern African landbirds such as the southern ground hornbill or white-winged chough, have the longest chick-rearing stage of any bird on earth.
• The bird population includes Abyssinian ground hornbills, blue cranes, east African crowned cranes, greater flamingos, marabou storks, ostriches, pink-backed pelicans, and Ruppell's griffon vultures.