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unusual facts about Hemprich's Hornbill


Wilhelm Hemprich

Hemprich is commemorated in the names of the Sooty Gull, Larus hemprichii the Hemprich's Hornbill Tockus hemprichii and the fossil amber pseudoscorpion Pseudogarypus hemprichii


Northwest Panay Peninsula Natural Park

The site is home to a wide range of flora and fauna of the Western Visayas, as the Visayan Leopard Cat, the Visayan warty pig, the Visayan spotted deer, the Negros Bleeding-heart dove, the Blue-naped Parrot, the Visayan Hornbill, Walden's Hornbill, and the Panay monitor.

Walden's Hornbill

It is closely related to the Writhed Hornbill, but can be recognized by the yellow throat and ocular skin in the male, and the blue throat and ocular skin in the female (both throat and ocular skin are deep orange or red in both sexes of the Writhed Hornbill).


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