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	Malabar Grey Hornbill -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Malabar Grey Hornbill, Ocyceros griseus, is a (Bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers) hornbill.
		Hornbills are a family of tropical (additional info and facts about near-passerine) near-passerine (Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings) birds found in the (The regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas) Old World.
		The Malabar Grey Hornbill is a common resident breeder in south west (A republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947) India.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/malabar_grey_hornbill.htm (309 words)

	Malabar - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Malabar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Malabar is a region of southern India, lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea, and comprising the northern half of the state of Kerala.
		The Malabar Coast, in historical contexts, refers to India's southwest coast, lying on the narrow coastal plain of Karnataka and Kerala states between the Western Ghats range and the Arabian Sea.
		Geographically, the Malabar Coast, especially on its westward-facing mountain slopes, comprises the wettest region of southern India, as the Western Ghats intercept the moisture-laden monsoon rains.
	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Malabar.html (513 words)

	hornbill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hornbills (Family Bucerotidae) are a group of birds whose bill is shaped like a cow's horn, but without a twist, sometimes with a casque on the upper mandible.
		Hornbills are omnivorous birds, eating fruit, insects and small animals.
		In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, Hornbills are separated from the Coraciiformes, which also includes kingfishers, bee-eaters and rollers as a separate order Bucerotiformes.
	www.yourencyclopedia.net /Hornbill.html (337 words)

	Malabar Grey Hornbill (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Malabar Grey Hornbill, Ocyceros griseus, is a hornbill.
		Hornbills are a family of tropical near-passerine birds found in the Old World.
		Malabar Grey Hornbill is a common resident breeder in south west India.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/malabar_grey_hornbill_1 (262 words)

	hornbills (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The husbandry and breeding of the Yellow-billed Hornbill in Berlin Friedrichsfield Zoo.
		Kemp, A. The ecology, behaviour and systematics of Tockus hornbills.
		Lewis, A. The Trumpter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator in Nairobi.
	www.vrettos.fsnet.co.uk /hornbills.htm (11927 words)

	Hornbill
		Hornbills (Family Bucerotidae) are a group of birds whose bill is shaped like a cow's horn, but without a twist, and with a casque on the upper bill.
		Hornbills could well be called "jailbirds" because of their rearing habits.
		Hornbills are omnivorous, eating fruit, insects and small animals.
	www.fastload.org /ho/Hornbill.html (288 words)

	Hornbill biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hornbills' distribution ranges from Africa south of the Sahara through tropical Asia to the Philippines and Solomon Islands.
		Most are arboreal birds of dense forest, but the large Ground Hornbills, as their name implies, are terrestrial birds of open savanna.
		However, the Rhinoceros Hornbill has a solid casque made of a material called hornbill ivory, which the Chinese valued greatly as a carving material.
	hornbill.biography.ms (316 words)

	Hornbills Abbysinian Ground Hornbill Bucorvus abbysinicus Scientific...
		Hornbills are omnivorous omnivorous birds, eating fruit, insects and small animals.
		In the Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy Sibley-Ahlquist taxonomy, Hornbills are separated from the "Coraciiformes", which also includes kingfisher kingfishers, bee-eater bee-eaters and roller rollers as a separate order " Bucerotiformes." Some species have different plumages for each sex.
		Sri Lanka Grey Hornbill Sri Lanka Grey Hornbill, Ocyceros gingalensis
	www.biodatabase.de /hornbill (374 words)

	Indian Express: The hornbill and the web of life
		The Malabar Grey Hornbill is endemic to the region and is confined to the moist forests of Malabar.
		According to Balasubramanian, hornbills are secondary hole nesters and prefer natural cavities in large trees to build their nests in.
		The male hornbill meanwhile travels over a distance of several kilometers within the forest in search of food, which he then passes on to his female through the nest opening.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19991125/ile25084p.html (992 words)

	Nature Conservation Foundation - People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Raman, T. and Mudappa, D. Correlates of hornbill distribution and abundance in rainforest fragments in the southern Western Ghats, India.
		Mudappa, D. Nesting habitat, breeding biology, and conservation of the Malabar grey hornbill (Ocyceros griseus) in southern Western Ghats, India.
		Mudappa, D. Nesting habitat of the Malabar grey hornbill (Ocyceros griseus) in Anamalais, southern Western Ghats, India.
	www.ncf-india.org /people/divya.htm (583 words)

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	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- Malabar Coast moist forests (IM0124)
		Many years ago, the Malabar Coast Moist Deciduous Forests [IM0124] ecoregion was a swath of lush tropical evergreen forest that extended along the western coast of the Deccan Peninsula between the Western Ghats Mountains and the Indian Ocean (Champion and Seth 1968).
		The ecoregion represents the semi-evergreen forests along India's Malabar Coast, a narrow strip of land lying between the Indian Ocean to the west and extending up to the 250-m contour of the steep Western Ghats Mountains to the east (after Rodgers and Panwar 1988).
		The ecoregion has an estimated 280 bird species, including one near-endemic species, the Malabar grey hornbill (Ocyceros griseus), which is shared with the submontane and montane ecoregions of the Western Ghats Mountains (table 2).
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0124_full.html (1265 words)

	Birdwatching Trip Report from Goa ,India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Grey Junglefowl, Red Spurfowl, Indian Peafowl, Black Eagle, Crested Serpent‑Eagle, Emerald Dove, Nilgiri Wood‑Pigeon, Blue‑eared Kingfisher, Black‑backed Kingfisher, Common Hawk-Cuckoo, Grey‑bellied Cuckoo, Common and Greater Flameback, Drongo Cuckoo, Crested Treeswift, Brown‑headed Barbet, Heart‑spotted Woodpecker, Hair‑crested Drongo, Rusty‑tailed and Ultramarine Flycatcher, Grey‑headed Bulbul, Little Spiderhunter, Common Rosefinch, Black‑headed Bunting.
		There was one emergency stop en route only a few kilometres before the camp when Eric spotted a group of Malabar Pied‑Hornbills and we all piled out panicking that we had missed the birds, but we needn’t had to worry, because we had good ‘scope views of these South Indian endemic birds.
		Laggar Falcon, Ceylon Frogmouth, Malabar Trogon, Indian Pitta and White‑browed Bushchat, lifers all of course.
	www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/india/india3-goa/GOA1.htm (7350 words)

	New Page 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In addition to the wild life, there are water and land birds galore here, and one can sometimes find dedicated bird watchers setting in for one or two weeks of serious observations.
		of lush green tropical forests, it is the natural habitat of elephant, bison, spotted deer, sambar, bear etc. Colourful variety of birds like the Malabar Grey Hornbill, Grey jungle fowl and the Jungle Myna are seen.
		Thattekad Bird Sanctuary This bird sanctuary is a peninsular land of 25 sq.
	www.kerala.india-tours.com /kerala-wildlife.html (817 words)

	Jacques-Louis David . France . Italy . Nicolas Poussin . Battle of Waterloo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At Waterloo, Wellington had the reinforced farm Hougomont anchoring his right flank, and several other farms on his left.
		Malabar Grey Hornbill :Animalia :Chordate Chordata : Aves :Coraciiformes FamilyBucerotidae : Ocyceros : griseus Binomial name Ocyceros griseus John Latham Latham, 1790 Malabar Grey Hornbill, Ocyceros griseus, is a hornbill.
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	www.uk.fraquisanto.net /Jacques-Louis_David (611 words)

	Surplus Musings
		As soon as I came out of the house, I saw a malabar grey hornbill flying into a nearby cashew tree.
		Soon, the party of mynas and hornbills moved slowly into the jungles.
		Hornbills had added their kek-kek as response to mynas.
	surplusmusings.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_surplusmusings_archive.html (1749 words)

	Terrestrial Ecoregions -- North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests (IM0134)
		Several hornbills-Malabar grey hornbill (Ocyceros griseus), Indian grey hornbill (Ocyceros birostris), and great hornbill (Buceros bicornis)-that need tall, mature forests for nesting can be used as focal species for conservation management.
		We used the 1,000-m contour from a DEM and MacKinnon's (1997) map of original vegetation to define the boundary between the montane rain forests and moist deciduous forests.
		The outer boundaries, between the dry forests in the Deccan Plateau to the east and the distinctly different lowland moist deciduous forests along the Malabar coast to the west, were defined using MacKinnon's (1997) reconstruction of the distribution of the original vegetation types.
	www.worldwildlife.org /wildworld/profiles/terrestrial/im/im0134_full.html (1131 words)

	Western Ghats Endemics Birding Tour, Kerala, India
		It is expected to see the Malabar Grey Hornbill, Whitebellied Treepie, Rufous Babbler, Wayanad Laughing Thrush, Grey headed Bulbul, White-bellied Blue Flycatcher, Crimson-backed Sunbird, Nilgiri wood Pigeon, Malabar Parakeet at Thattekkad.
		Other notable species likely to be seen within the Reserve are Red Spurfowl, Ceylon Frogmouth, Blue-faced Malkoha, Blue-bearded Bee-eater, Malabar Grey Hornbill, White-bellied and Heart-spotted Woodpeckers, Rufous Babbler, White-bellied Blue Flycatcher, White-bellied Treepie and Black-throated Munia.
		In the late afternoon we will drive to Munnar, a hill station situated at 1450m in the centre of a major tea-producing region.
	www.birdskerala.com /html/endemic.htm (640 words)

	South India birding tours, birding in Kerala, birding in South India, Kerala birding tours, bird sanctuaries in South ...
		The rare Indian Pitta, the endemic Malabar Parakeet, Malabar Grey Hornbill and the Whitebellied Treepie are common visitors.
		The Hornbill Camp, a luxury tented camp (with en-suite toilet) on the banks of the river Periyar.
		You'll wake to a dawn chorus of birds, and will be cared for a feed by the guide's family and local community members.
	www.insider-tours.com /birding_tours.html (1608 words)

	Fig-eating review: References
		JOHNS, A. The use of primary and selectively logged forest by Malaysian hornbills (Bucerotidae) and implications for their conservation.
		KALINA, J. Ecology and behaviour of the Black-and-white Casqued Hornbill (Bycanistes subcylindricus) in Kibale Forest, Uganda.
		KINNAIRD, M. Preliminary observation on the breeding ecology of the endemic Sulawesi Red-knobbed Hornbill.
	www.geocities.com /mikeshanahan/figs/FIGREFS.html (7601 words)

	Les oiseaux Bucerotidés
		Black-casqued Hornbill, Ceratogymna atrata, Calao à casque noir
		From the wet evergreen forests and alpine peaks of the Himalayas, to the Thar Desert and the vast wetlands, grasslands, and agricultural habitats that stretch to New Delhi and beyond, northern India is a diverse and welcoming paradise for birders and ecotourists.
		This field guide provides a concise, fully illustrated introduction to the region's known species.Species that occur regularly are illustrated on 120 color plates by eminent bird illustrators from Europe and India.
	www.oiseaux.net /liste/birds.bucerotidae.html (431 words)

	Lake Periyar, Thekkady sanctuary, Western Ghats in Kerala
		Amongst the avifauna, the most profuse are herons, egrets, darters, kingfishers, grackles and the great Malabar grey hornbill.
		Apart from leopards, I have met al the above mentioned citizens of Periyar and very obliging they are, too, to the tourists who come to see them unceasingly throughout the year.
		The most notable of the indigenous birds are Malabar grey hornbill, Great Indian hornbill and grey jungle fowl.
	www.indiaprofile.com /wildlife/periyarscantuary.htm (1352 words)

	thattekad bird sanctuary kerala, thattekad wild life sanctuary, forest in kerala, jungle resorts near thattekad bird ...
		This bird sanctuary is the house to the both resting indigenous birds and water birds.
		The indigenous birds found mostly there are Malabar Grey hornbill, Grey jungle fowl, heron, egret, jungle myna, wood pecker, rose winged and blue winged parakeet.
		The important species of birds here are Indian rollers, Cuckoos, Common Snipes, Pheasants, Jungle Nightjars, Kites, Grey Drongos, Malabar Tro, Woodpeckers, Large Pied Wagtails, Baya Sparrows, Grey Jungle Fowls, Hill Mynas, Robins, Jungle Babblers, Sundries and Darters.
	www.india-tours.com /wildlifeinindia/thakketad.htm (243 words)

	Kerala Bird Watching Tour Packages India, Bird Watching Tour in Kerala,Wildlife Tour,Indian birds Sanctuaries, Famous ...
		Thick forests and open grasslands dominate this region and is home to over 360 species of birds.
		One can expect wayanad laughing thrush, oriental darter, wooly-necked stork, rufous-bellied eagle, grey junglefowl, pompadour green pigeon, malabar parakeet, great indian hornbill, vernal hanging parrot, grey nightjar, malabar grey hornbill.
		One can expect broad-billed roller, chestnut bittern, grey-headed fish eagle, orange-breasted green pigeon, spot-bellied eagle owl, brown fish owl, mottled wood owl, sri lankan frogmouth, greateared nightjar, malabar trogon, malabar grey hornbill.
	www.indianwildlife.org /birds-watching-tour/birding-tour-in-kerala-india.html (506 words)

	birding facts Birding Resources by the Fat Birder
		The birds include darter, cormorant, grey heron, ibis, great malabar hornbill and grey hornbill, kingfishers, ospreys and kites as well as orioles, hill mynas, racket tailed drongos, parakeets, including the unusual blue winged paraket and flycatchers.
		A plantation forest with teak, mahogany and fruit-bearing trees along with the natural wild tropical deciduous vegetation, it is home to nearly 350 species of birds, most notably the Malabar grey hornbill.
		The Hornbill Camp has been specifically planned to make you get the most out of your short stay here at Thattekkad.
	www.fatbirder.com /links_geo/asia/india_kerala.html (2222 words)

	Resources on the Sulawesi Hornbill from academic institutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		ADW: Penelopides exarhatus: Classification: Penelopides exarhatus (Sulawesi hornbill).
		BIRDCHAT archives -- January 1996, week 3 (#89): The red-knobbed hornbill, Aceros cassidix, is endemic to Sulawesi and adjacent islands
		Twitiaviformes: Like hornbills and toucans, they nest in excavated holes in tree-trunks.
	mongabay.org /conservation/Sulawesi_Hornbill.htm (265 words)

	www.cliftongrovebirds.com provided by Bravenet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		At this sight we saw some good commoner forest birds but the Hornbills failed to show and it was time to head back to the camp for dinner and a few cold beers.
		Arriving back at camp Loven had just relocated the pair of Sri Lanka Frogmouth that had gone missing two weeks ago after moving from their traditional roosting site in a bamboo just outside the camp.Minutes later we were watching the newly found pair again roosting in a bamboo about 200 mts from their usually sight.
		As we walked further into the reserve 2 Malabar Pied Hornbill were seen flying over the trees a loud calling sound from the trees turned out to be a Malabar Giant Squrrel.This is a excellent reserve and is well worth the long drive to get here.
	cliftongrovebirds.com /goa_dec_2004.html (2060 words)

	Tradewings Travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the rice-paddies near the new Konkan Railway one finds Pied, White-throated, and Common Kingfisher, Indian Cliff and Red-rumped Swallows, Black Drongos and Rufous-backed Shrike were everywhere as were Black and Brahminy Kite.
		Malabar Lark and several Pipits (Paddyfield?) were seen and Little Green Bee-eater probably the most abundant species.
		A walk through some mature woodland one can hit a real purple patch, Malabar Grey Hornbill, Orange-headed Ground and Blue-headed Rock-Thrush, Malabar Trogon, Chestnut-headed Bee-eater and Marie can find a Jungle Owlet perched above the track which we all had overlooked.
	www.tradewingstravel.com /goa/gwildlife.jsp (618 words)

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