Checklist of the birds of Selous Game Reserve - wildlife-baldus.com

Beautifully patterned slender birds with broad wings. The long down-curved bills are used forprobing trees and soil for insects and other small prey.Hoopoe Upupa africanaHornbillsFamily BucerotidaeBirds with stout down-curved bills, topped with a horny casque. They feed on animal prey orfruit, depending on the species. Unlike most birds they have large eyelashes. In most speciesthe nest is a cavity into which the female is sealed by blocking the entrance with mud, leavingonly a small slit through which the male feeds her.Silvery-cheeked Hornbill Bycanistes brevisTrumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinatorCrowned Hornbill Tockus alboterminatusVon der Decken's Hornbill Tockus deckeniRed-billed Hornbill Tockus erythrorhynchusGrey Hornbill Tockus nasutusPale-billed Hornbill Tockus pallidirostrisGround Hornbill Bucorvus caferOrder PiciformesBarbetsFamily CapitonidaeCompact birds with strong bills that they use for eating fruit or insect prey. Nests are cavitiesexcavated in trees, termitaria or the ground. Some species have distinctive monotonous calls.White-eared barbet Buccanodon leucotisWhyte's Barbet Buccanodon whytiiSpotted-flanked Barbet Lybius lacrymosusBrown-breasted Barbet Lybius melanopterusBlack-collared Barbet Lybius torquatusYellow-rumped Tinkerbird Pogoniulus bilineatusYellow-fronted Tinkerbird Pogoniulus chrysoconusGreen Tinkerbird Pogoniulus simplex