Cow Birds
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
They’re all named for livestock. The naming of the hornbill family is a bit farther fetched. Wikimedia Commons Bucerotidae is etymologically opaque to most birders, I’d venture, but when Rafinesque described the family almost two centuries ago, he had kine on his mind. at Princeton University in 1990. Wicked, right?
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