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Flickr group: pic of the day – southern yellow-billed hornbill Jun 5 2008

Southern yellow-billed hornbills (Tockus leucomelas) are medium-sized birds, with distinctive large yellow bills and red skin around their eyes.

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Hornbills feed in banyan tree May 12 2008

On a cool, breezy morning in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand, the Earth-Touch crew visited a banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) to watch birds and other wildlife feeding on the fruit.

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Did you know? Elephants and marula berries Apr 11 2008

Elephants are notoriously destructive feeders, breaking off branches, debarking trees and even uprooting or pushing over whole trees. But they also play an important role in the life cycle of trees, by dropping seeds of their favourite trees in their dung as they move from place to place. Birds such as hornbills eat their favourite seeds off the ground, and so the distribution process continues.

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The week’s most viewed stories Mar 14 2008

The most popular stories on Earth-Touch in the past week (from Friday 07 March to Thursday 13 March 2008) were:

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Hornbills in courtship display Dec 21 2007

In the Earth Touch clip, Two hornbill species in one spot, the southern yellow-billed hornbill (Tockus leucomelas) and the red-billed hornbill (Tockus erythrorhynchus) are seen in the acacia trees of the Okavango Delta in Botswana.

The pair of southern yellow-billed hornbills is seen in an elaborate courtship display.