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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

10,000 Birds

The Crowned Hornbill is among those hornbills in which during incubation the female seals herself into a tree cavity using her own droppings. On the other hand, their preferred food is blood, and they also feed on it directly, pecking at a mammal’s wounds to keep them open ( source ). UysI and G.