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Southern Yellow Billed Hornbill, Near Francistown, Botswana 2014

October 20, 2015

I was up early one morning whilst camping not far from a waterhole. As I walked around the campsite looking at the waterhole hoping to see some large game, I disturbed a group of Yellow Billed Hornbills, who were sheltering out of the wind.  These birds are actually fairly common in this part of the world and the locals refer to them as “flying bananas”.  As I got closer I saw they were chasing a few large insects and as I pulled out my camera one caught one right in front of me. Then, just like the Toucans of South America, it tossed it in the air and swallowed it head first. Luckily I got that sequence.

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