Category: Hornbills

• Are we doing enough to protect the magnificent hornbills?

  

  Although the snake does not fly, it has caught the hornbill, whose home is in the sky Apparently not enough, especially in some African countries like Ghana and Cameroon where uncontrolled hunting and habitat degradation is decimating the hornbill population. If you don’t know what hornbills are, I encourage you to read my previous two […]

  Perla Copernik

  July 4, 2018

  Birds, Conservation, Extinction, Hornbills, Nature, photography, wildlife

  African birds, animal photography, Asian birds, Conservation, conservation photography, endangered birds, Extinction, Hornbills, photography

• Part II: Nuts About Hornbills: What’s So Special About Them?

  

  “No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” -William Blake There are many fascinating things about these amazingly weird looking birds; a couple of them are pretty obvious their colorful and in some species huge casques and large bills. The other one, which is not so obvious, but very interesting, is […]

  Perla Copernik

  March 3, 2014

  Africa, Asia, Birds, Conservation, Evolution, Hornbills, Nature, photography, wildlife

  Bird Photography, Birds, Conservation, ground-honbills, Hornbills, nesting behavior, wrinkled hornbill

• Nuts About Hornbills: A Fascinating Evolutionary Story

  

  The extraordinary habit of the male, in plastering up the female with her egg, and feeding her during the whole time of incubation, and until the young one is fledged, is common to several of the large hornbills, and is one of those strange facts in natural history which are “stranger than fiction.” -Alfred Russel […]

  Perla Copernik

  January 4, 2014

  Africa, Asia, Birds, Conservation, Evolution, Hornbills, photography, wildlife

  Birds, Conservation, ground-hornbills, Hornbills, photography, wildlife