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Bucorvus leadbeateri (Southern Ground Hornbill)

Synonyms: Buceros leadbeateri; Bucorvus cafer; Bucorvus leadbeateri leadbeateri

Wikipedia Abstract

The southern ground hornbill (Bucorvus leadbeateri; formerly known as Bucorvus cafer), is one of two species of ground hornbill and is the largest species of hornbill. The other species of the genus Bucorvus is the Abyssinian ground hornbill, B. abyssinicus.
View Wikipedia Record: Bucorvus leadbeateri

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Bucorvus leadbeateri

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  8.49 lbs (3.851 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  100.5 grams
Female Weight [3]  7.372 lbs (3.344 kg)
Male Weight [3]  9.24 lbs (4.191 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [3]  25.3 %
Clutch Size [5]  2
Fledging [1]  86 days
Incubation [4]  40 days
Maximum Longevity [6]  70 years
Female Maturity [1]  4 years 5 months
Male Maturity [1]  3 years

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Predators

Panthera leo (Lion)[7]
Panthera pardus (Leopard)[7]

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
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♦ 2Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 3Kemp, A. 1995. The Hornbills. Oxford: Oxford University Press
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 6de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 7The Serengeti food web: empirical quantification and analysis of topological changes under increasing human impact, Sara N. de Visser, Bernd P. Freymann and Han Olff, Journal of Animal Ecology 2011, 80, 484–494
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0