Abstract
The article describes a predation incident of a yellow-billed hornbill on an adult southern grey-headed sparrow that took place at the Mabuasehube area of the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park, Botswana.
Highlights
Biodiversity Observations is an open access electronic journal published by the Animal Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town, available at https://journals.uct.ac.za/index.php/BO/
An HTML version can be found at http://thebdi.org/blog/2018/07/08/hornbill-predation-on-sparrow
Hornbill predation on sparrow were foraging in a response usually observed when there is an attack by a bird of prey
Summary
Biodiversity Observations is an open access electronic journal published by the Animal Demography Unit at the University of Cape Town, available at https://journals.uct.ac.za/index.php/BO/. Predation by Southern Yellow-billed Hornbill on adult Southern Grey-headed Sparrow Author(s): de Castro J, Castro L, de Castro M and Rijnders F This includes observations of behaviour, breeding and flowering patterns, distributions and range extensions, foraging, food, movement, measurements, habitat and colouration/plumage variations.
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