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Mudappa, D. 1998. Nesting habitat characteristics, breeding biology, and conservation of the Malabar Grey Hornbill in Anamalai, southern Western Ghats, India. Pages 99-109. In: P. Poonswad (ed.), The Asian Hornbills: Ecology and Conservation., pp. 336. Thai Studies in Biodiversity 2.
Mudappa, D. 2000. Breeding biology of the Malabar Grey Hornbill Ocyceros griseus in southern Western Ghats, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 97: 15-24.
Mudappa, D. 2005. Eight years monitoring of Malabar Grey Hornbill Ocyceros griseus nest cavity use and dynamics in the Anamalai rainforest, India. In: S. Lum and P. Poonswad (eds), The Ecology of Hornbills: Reproduction and Population, pp. 3-10. Pimdee Karnpim Co., Ltd., Bangkok.
Mudappa, D. C. & Kannan, R. 1997. Nest-site characteristics and nesting success of the Malabar Gray Hornbill in the Southern Western Ghats, India. Wilson Bulletin 109: 102-111.
Raman, T. R. S. & Mudappa, D. 2003. Correlates of hornbill distribution and abundance in rainforest fragments in the southern Western Ghats, India. Bird Conservation International 13: 199-212.
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IUCN SSC Hornbill Specialist Group
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BirdLife International (2024) Species factsheet: Malabar Grey Hornbill Ocyceros griseus. Downloaded from
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