Featured animal: Great Indian hornbill (Buceros bicornis)
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Location: Dandeli, India
The Great Indian hornbill is such an amazing bird that one must study them to find out their many quirks and traits. Firstly, they are so big that when they fly overhead, it sounds like a helicopter is passing by. The sexes are distinct and easy to distinguish even from a distance. The hornbills have the unique habit of sealing the female in a tree hole for the duration of nesting. She is sealed in during egg laying, incubation and hatching. Only after the young hatch does the female break open the seal and leave the nest. After recouping and re-growing her feathers, she must then participate in the feeding of the brood inside the tree hole. Here we see a female flying to the nest to feed her young, carrying fruit in her beak.
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