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THE GREAT INDIAN HORNBILL The main feature of this hornbill is its prodigious beak makes a person to identify. its nesting habbit are very unusual with its peculiar behaviour. at the appointed season after its courtship and pairing, the female hornbill betakes herself to a natural hollow in some tree trunk. she herself within this hollow using her droppings as plaster and the flat sides of her enormous bill as trowel to wall up the entrance, merely living a narrow slit through which to receive the food brought in by the male. this walling up process occupies 2-3 days and male assists her at all in the work in fetching the mud. in the case of closely related Great Pied Hornbill. it is beleived that during her incarceration the female moults her flight quills, so that the imprisoning wall gives her protection from predators at a tiem when she is most helpless.