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| | [[Image:45273PN-BlackHornbilla.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Male, a variant with white/greyish supercillium <br />Photo by {{user|TSWong|TSWong}}<br />Tawau, Sabah, September 2006]] | | [[Image:45273PN-BlackHornbilla.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Male, a variant with white/greyish supercillium <br />Photo by {{user|TSWong|TSWong}}<br />Tawau, Sabah, September 2006]] |
| | + | '''Alternative names: Asian Black Hornbill; Malay Black Hornbill''' |
| | ;[[:Category:Anthracoceros|Anthracoceros]] malayanus | | ;[[:Category:Anthracoceros|Anthracoceros]] malayanus |
| | ==Identification== | | ==Identification== |
| - | 76cm<br /> | + | 60-65cm. A medium-sized, blackish hornbill. |
| - | Black plumage, horn shaped bill often topped by a large casque. <br /> | + | ====Male==== |
| - | '''Females''' have blackish bills and reddish facial skin | + | * Black plumage |
| | + | * Long tail with broad white tips on outer tail feathers |
| | + | * White or pale grey superciliary stripe, variable, can also be dark grey or absent |
| | + | * Pale yellow bill and casque |
| | + | * Blue-black bare skin around eye and small throat patch |
| | + | [[Image:Black Hornbillfem.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Female<br />Photo by {{user|kctsang|kctsang}}<br />Kinabatangan River, Sabah, May 2009]] |
| | + | ====Female==== |
| | + | * Smaller than male |
| | + | * Black bill and smaller casque |
| | + | * Yellowish-flesh to pinkish circumorbital skin |
| | + | * Yellow-buff throat patch |
| | + | Juveniles with smaller, pale green bill. |
| | ==Distribution== | | ==Distribution== |
| - | Endemic to Southeast [[Asia]]: found in [[Indochina]], [[Vietnam]], [[Thailand]], [[Malaysia]], [[Malay Peninsula]], [[Brunei]], [[Borneo]], [[Indonesia]], [[Greater Sundas]], [[Sumatra]] | + | From southern [[Thailand]] to [[Malaysia]] and on [[Sumatra]] and [[Borneo]].<br /> |
| | + | Locally still common but threatened by habitat loss. |
| | ==Taxonomy== | | ==Taxonomy== |
| - | [[Image:Black Hornbillfem.jpg|thumb|300px|right|Female<br />Photo by {{user|kctsang|kctsang}}<br />Kinabatangan River, Sabah, May 2009]] | + | This is a [[Dictionary_M-S#M|monotypic]] species.<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup><br /> |
| - | Monotypic<sup>[[#References|[1]]]</sup> | + | |
| - | | + | |
| | Subspecies ''deminutus'' is usually considered invalid<sup>[[#References|[2]]]</sup> | | Subspecies ''deminutus'' is usually considered invalid<sup>[[#References|[2]]]</sup> |
| | ==Habitat== | | ==Habitat== |
| - | Lowland forest. | + | Lowland primary evergreen forest. Usually below 200m. |
| | ==Behaviour== | | ==Behaviour== |
| | [[Image:Black_Hornbill.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Juvenile<br />Photo by {{user|MountainMan|MountainMan}} <br />Similajau National Park, Bintulu, East [[Malaysia]], October 2005]] | | [[Image:Black_Hornbill.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Juvenile<br />Photo by {{user|MountainMan|MountainMan}} <br />Similajau National Park, Bintulu, East [[Malaysia]], October 2005]] |
| | + | Only rarely seen in flocks. |
| | ====Diet==== | | ====Diet==== |
| - | The diet includes fruit, grasshoppers, locusts, small reptiles and amphibians. | + | Feeds mainly on fruit but takes also grasshoppers, locusts, small reptiles and amphibians. Catches also bats.<br /> |
| | + | Forages in middle and lower levels of forest. |
| | + | ====Breeding==== |
| | + | Little known. Nests in a natural cavity or an old woodpecker hole in a tree. |
| | ====Vocalisation==== | | ====Vocalisation==== |
| | Not as noisy as the other Hornbills | | Not as noisy as the other Hornbills |
| | ==References== | | ==References== |
| - | #{{Ref-Clements6thDec08}}#Avibase | + | #{{Ref-Clements6thAug11}}#Avibase |
| - | #London Zoo | + | #{{Ref-HBWVol6}}#London Zoo |
| | #BF Member observations | | #BF Member observations |
| | {{ref}} | | {{ref}} |
60-65cm. A medium-sized, blackish hornbill.
Lowland primary evergreen forest. Usually below 200m.
Feeds mainly on fruit but takes also grasshoppers, locusts, small reptiles and amphibians. Catches also bats.
Forages in middle and lower levels of forest.
Little known. Nests in a natural cavity or an old woodpecker hole in a tree.
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