Bushy-crested hornbill

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Bushy-crested hornbill
Two Bushy-crested Hornbills (Anorrhinus galeritus) in a tree.jpg
CITES Appendix II (CITES) [2]
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Bucerotiformes
Family: Bucerotidae
Genus: Anorrhinus
Species:
A. galeritus
Binomial name
Anorrhinus galeritus
(Temminck, 1831)

The bushy-crested hornbill (Anorrhinus galeritus) is a bird in the hornbill family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

It lives in groups. [3]

Females have a unique nesting behavior in which they stay alone in a mud-covered tree hole during incubation and are fed by other hornbills from outside the nest. [3]

Diet

The bushy-crested hornbill mainly eats fruit: several different species of figs, Indian Mast Tree (Polyalthia lateriflora), Oncosperma horridum, Canarium megalanthum , Canthiumera glabra, Zuccarinia macrophylla, Myristica sp., Horsfieldia sp., champak (Magnolia champaca), Dysoxylum sp., Fibraurea tinctoria, Endocomia macrocoma, and Alseodaphne falcata. [3]

References

  1. BirdLife International (2020). "Anorrhinus galeritus". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2020 e.T22682485A177973137. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22682485A177973137.en . Retrieved 16 November 2021.
  2. "Appendices | CITES". cites.org. Retrieved 2022-01-14.
  3. 1 2 3 Apriliasari, Messy; Nurcahyani, Nuning; Rustiati, Elly Lestari; Priyambodo, Priyambodo; Utoyo, Laji (2022-01-06). "Eating Behavior of the Klihingan Hornbill (Anorrhinus Galeritus) When Nesting at the Way Canguk Research Station, Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park (TNBBS)". Jurnal Ilmiah Biologi Eksperimen dan Keanekaragaman Hayati. 9 (1): 34–41. doi: 10.23960/jbekh.v9i1.217 . ISSN   2686-200X.