This male is about to give a meal of forest fruit to his nesting family. Helmeted hornbills regurgitate and defecate tree seeds, helping to replenish wide swaths of forest, where commercial ...

Antonio was leading a photography tour when he noticed a pair of hornbills in fruit trees. The female was preening the hard-to-reach head feathers of the male. He underexposed the image to merge the ...

Meanwhile, fruit bats pollinate crops like bananas, mangoes, and durians, playing a critical role in global food security. Sadly, many of these species, including the hornbill, are declining.

When the female hornbill is about to lay eggs, she seals herself inside a cavity made of mud, saliva, bark, and fruit, and ...