Oriental Pied Hornbill
Anthracoceros albirostris
Also known as: Oriental Pied-Hornbill · Orijentalni grozdasti hrenov
Aves
UNCOMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 25-35 yrs
- Size
- Large
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Pair
- Biome
- Tropical rainforest
- Range
- Southeast Asia
- Movement
- Flight
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Flight
- Status
- Uncommon
About
An Indo-Malayan canopy-dwelling hornbill with a striking black-and-white plumage and a large, casqued ivory-and-black bill. It has the widest distribution of any hornbill in its genus, ranging across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia.
Life cycle
- 1.eggA clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
- 2.hatchlingA naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
- 3.juvenileA feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
- 4.adultFully grown with adult plumage.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Bucerotiformes
- Family
- Bucerotidae
- Genus
- Anthracoceros
- Species
- Anthracoceros albirostris