• Steve's Photo Pick

    Steve’s Photo Pick – 2017 September-October

    (IMAGE) Trumpeter Hornbill, Bycanistes buccinator, (6-week-old chick) – A common species of equatorial Africa, the Trumpeter Hornbill often lives in small groups but sometimes as many as 50. Trumpeters are a medium-sized hornbill at about 24” long and do have a loud braying call, much louder than the Tockus species of hornbills which are also from Africa. Trumpeter Hornbills are omnivorous but eat much more fruit than animal prey, which is mostly insects. Like most other hornbills, the female will seal herself into a tree cavity for the duration of incubation and most of the period that the chicks are being reared. Young hornbills often sit with their tails cocked…