Portrait of the Ruaha Red-billed hornbill showing the distinctive dark colouration around the eyes and the bill of the male and female

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Portrait of the Ruaha Red-billed hornbill showing the distinctive dark colouration around the eyes and the bill of the male which has made this a new species endemic to the Ruahah regionSound and behaviour of the new species is identical in all other ways to their relatives

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Size: 4000px × 2677px
Location: Ruaha National Park, Tanzania
Photo credit: © Nick Greaves / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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