Common Name: Sri Lanka grey hornbill
Scientific Name: Ocyceros gingalensis
Animal Family: Bucerotidae
Description: The Sri Lanka grey hornbill is a large bird at 45 cm (18 in ) in length. Sexes are similar, although the male has a cream-colored bill, whereas the female's is black with a cream stripe. Immature birds have dark grey upperparts, a cream bill, and a tail with a white tip. Its fight is slow and powerful. The female lays up to four white eggs in a tree hole blocked off during incubation with a cement made of mud, droppings and fruit pulp.
Population: The Sri Lankan grey hornbill populations are believed to be stable across Sri Lanka. No Conservation action has been taken by the country thus far.
Found where: The Grey Hornbill is a bird of forest and well wooded areas. It is Found both in the wet and dry zones and ascends the hills up to about 1300 m. In the Dry zone if favours riverine forests though in the Wilpattu National Park it inhabits forests close to the villus as well.
Habitat: Found in pairs and groups in forest and woodland, preferring drier areas.
Foods: Mainly fruit, especially small figs, but also variety of wild and cultivated species; also insects, frogs, lizard, scorpions.
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