You may now kiss the bride
Name: Oriental Pied Hornbill / Indian Pied Hornbill
Clicked: Jan of 2016
In: Duars
Range: India (North, East and Northeast) and South East Asia
Hornbills are mostly monogamous and have a pretty well laid out protocols for domestic life. For egg laying, till hatching and thereafter till the young ones grow up big enough to fledge, the females seals herself up in a tree cavity with just a small vertical slit left open. The male transfers the food for mother and kids from this slit.
Here a prospective couple of Oriental Pied Hornbills are seen indulging in a courtship behaviour, which is a probably a practice run of the days to come...
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