Ground Hornbills nest in large natural cavities in trees or on rock faces. When nest sites are lost or groups are disturbed at active nest sites, they are unable to breed sufficiently fast to replace group members that are lost to persecution or poisoning.

The project aims to provide a nest to groups of Southern Ground Hornbills that don't have one. These nest are put up on interested and pro-active farms and reserves where groups have lost their nest or none are available to them.

 

 

 

Would you like to sponsor a nest?   Click here!

Artificial nest being placed in a large Blue gum tree on Mabula Game Reserve

Artificial nest placed in the Limpopo Province where the groups nesting tree had collapsed.

Male ground hornbill carrying nesting material to a female in an artificial nest on Mabula Game Reserve

The Ground Hornbill Project would like to thank the following people and institutions for sponsoring nests:

 

Paultons Park, Neville Dickinson, The Cuckoo Bird Club, Robby Wray, Potawatomi Zoo, Chester Zoo, Mr & Mrs Flower, Hannes Nel, Sacremento Zoo, Bernie Spencer, Alison Beutel, Streicher Family, Donovan van Luyk, Mathis Grimstad, Elizabeth Flisser, John Sands, Sheila Prentice, The Ryan Family,  Paul Thomas, Marianne Golding, Gerhard Minaar, Patty Cooper, Molly Gleason, Wendy Steele, Slabbert Family, WAZA, Rustenburg Bird Club,

The Project would also like to thank the following parties for participating in the artificial nest program.

 

Hannes Nel & Family, Cooper Family, Paul Thomas, Johan & Ina Taute, Brian Warren, Jack Kluff, Pieter & Leonie van der Merwe, Ria van der Walt, Gary & Linda Koen, Nel Family, John & Patty Saayman, Limbach Family, Gerhard Minaar, van der Walt Family,  Thompson Family, Knoetze Family, Seun de Swart, Slabbert Family, Streicher Family, Tuba and Rheta van der Walt, Du Plessis Family, South African Defence Force.

 

 

 

WOULD YOU LIKE TO BUILD YOUR OWN?

The following dimensions are suggested for an artificial nest:

A further 30 sponsored artificial nests will be put up during the winter of 2008, in areas where ground hornbills have been found to be unable to breed due to lack of a nest.