Definitions
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- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thefamily Bucerotidae .
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Examples
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African red-billed hornbill Tockus erythrorhyncus is recorded.
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Grey hornbill Tockus birostris and Marshall's iora Aegithina nigrolutea are also present.
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We passed through large tracts of Mopane country, and my men caught a great many of the birds called Korwe (‘Tockus erythrorhynchus’) in their breeding-places, which were in holes in the mopane-trees.
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Thinking the word korwe denoted some small animal, I waited with interest to see what he would extract; he broke the clay which surrounded the slit, put his arm into the hole, and brought out a ‘Tockus’, or ‘red-beaked hornbill’, which he killed.
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They are there called _Korwe (Tockus erythrorhynchus_), and Dr
The Castaways Mayne Reid 1850
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Tockus fasciatus 5-6; Piping Hornbill Ceratogymna fistulator
10,000 Birds 2008
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The size of the gap seems variable between individuals, and it’s much less pronounced than that seen in some other hornbills, like the red-billed and yellow-billed Tockus species.
Archive 2006-08-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The size of the gap seems variable between individuals, and it’s much less pronounced than that seen in some other hornbills, like the red-billed and yellow-billed Tockus species.
Bucorvids: post-Cretaceous maniraptorans on the savannah Darren Naish 2006
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Baikiaea woodlands are the preferred habitat of Bradfield’s hornbill (Tockus bradfieldi), which is near-endemic to the ecoregion and fairly common.
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Bradfield’s hornbill (Tockus bradfieldi) is one of only two species considered near-endemic to this ecoregion, found in the north of the ecoregion, the Okavango Delta, and northwest Zimbabwe, where it is utilizes Baikiaea and mixed Mopane woodlands.
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