Great Hornbill Male & female build nest, Mate for life | Rare Great Hornbill Nesting & berry feeding

Great Hornbill Male & female nest for chicks | Rare Great Hornbill Nesting behaviour & berry feeding
Great Hornbill Male & female build nest, Mate for life | Rare Great Hornbill Nesting & berry feeding
Great Hornbill couple build nest, Mate for life, wild love | Rare Great Hornbill Nesting & feeding
The Great hornbill or the great Indian hornbill is found in the Indian subcontinent. This rare wild video documentation explains the nesting behaviour of the Great Hornbill male and female.
The great hornbill breeding season is mostly from January to April and once they pair-up, most hornbills mate for life.
They prefer mature forests for nesting and search for large, tall and old trees, preferably the ones rise above the canopy and with the hollow in a large trunk.
The female hornbill builds a nest in the hollow of the large tree trunk, sealing the opening with a plaster made up mainly of feces or fecal matters after digesting the mud. Females are smaller than males and have bluish-white instead of red eyes. They are important dispersers of many forest tree species.
She remains inside, relying on the male to bring her food, until the chicks are half developed.
The female is fed by her mate through a slit in the seal and then later even the mother/chicks are fed by the Male Hornbill.
During this period the female undergoes a complete moult. The clutch consists of one or two eggs, which she incubates for 38-40 days. The female voids faces through the nest slit, as do the chicks from the age of two weeks. The young chicks have no feathers and appear very plump.
Once the female emerges from the nest, the chicks seal it again. Full development of chicks takes upto five years.
The great hornbill is long-lived, living for nearly 50 years in captivity. It is predominantly frugivorous, but is an opportunist and will prey on small mammals, reptiles and birds.
Due to habitat loss and hunting in some areas, the great hornbill is evaluated as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
The great hornbill is the state bird of Kerala and Arunachal Pradesh in India.
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Perfect example of a couple

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Fantastic documentation!!! The slow motion of the male regurgitating and feeding the female was fascinating to watch 😍 Fabulous details as always 😊

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Nice👍

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Wow.. what an amazing video. Specially the male feeding the female inside the next. Hats off. so beautiful 😍 Can't wait for the next video 😍

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Wow very beautuful birds i never see like this birds before..

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These are such a majestic birds

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[@lilyngullie2688]

The birds show Love, trust and survival in this beautiful, aging and challenging world..... Our parents passed down stories about them to us that, when they mate and make nest, they make a deal and promise to each other to go through the nesting together because it is a matter of life and death for the feamle who would shed off all her feathers during incubation of her eggs. The next thing is that the nest was plastered up and closed with mud leaving only a hole, big enough for the female's peak for passing food from the male bird that he catches from rivers....of crabs, fish, etc.(sometimes they wouldn't return because they die trapped by stones in the rivers while searching for feeds) Magnificent stories for magnificent birds. Thankyou for bringing them closer to us in sight......

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This is the Chin National Bird which are under the Catagory of Endangered species, we have a saying that These birds symbolized True Love

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[@view_irang]

Yes, true

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Great footage of the breeding pair!

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Wow beautiful bird.Perfect example of a couple.

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Oh đẹp quá ! Xinh đẹp dễ thương . Khu rừng cũng rất đẹp ! 💖🙂

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The best of Hornbill 🙂... love and trust are key to survival on earth. I hope humans do realise this before it becomes too late. Stay home and stay safe .

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It's too late bro for humans to understand...

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An exiting bird. Amazing shots!

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[@malensobilly]

God teach us with the nature this is the perfect example of couple

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❤️❤️🤗🤗👌

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Fantastic documentation 👍

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so beautiful

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Fascinating behavior.. thank you for sharing, very helpful for nature enthusiast. 💚

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[@Ragsit]

Thank u bro. This was beautiful. These birds r evolved complex beings like humans. They hav so much love and commitment. They r truly 🪷 divine couples.

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Great love. Great life.

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[@Uncagethewild]

Awesome 👌...can't wait for the next one with chicks 😍😍😍😍

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[@extrememobility]

Amazing documentation and Incredible work❤. A must watch Great Hornbill video specially at @3:00 mnts

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Just saw two of this birds behind my house, now. I stay in Western India, close to Western Ghats.

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Video is great but make these subtitles bold and white so everyone can easily read it.

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Lovely documentary. Please could you remake it without the background music? It would be nice to hear the natural sounds of the place where these beautiful birds live and nest.

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Belas aves ,tucanos no alto da árvore

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👍👍👍

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i ve seen live, they are very big in size

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Excellent ❤️

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[@ahallekatti]

Great effort. The text display though is unclear as its colours merge with the background and hence difficult to read.

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[@ianmahoney9502]

Please do something about your almost un readable text its sad not to be able to read the information that you wish to share

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Wow 🤩 which month did u shoot ? And place ??

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Save Hornbill !

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The baby in mouth, which bird??

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