Malabar Pied Hornbill

Malabar Pied Hornbill
Malabar Pied Hornbill
In Karwar district, Karnataka, India
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Coraciiformes
Family: Bucerotidae
Genus: Anthracoceros
Species: A. coronatus
Binomial name
Anthracoceros coronatus
(Boddaert, 1783)

The Malabar Pied Hornbill (Anthracoceros coronatus) is a hornbill. Hornbills are a family of tropical near-passerine birds found in the Old World.

The Malabar Pied Hornbill is a common resident breeder in tropical southern Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to Borneo. Its habitat is open woodland and cultivation, often close to habitation.

During incubation, the female lays two or three white eggs in a tree hole, which is blocked off with a cement made of mud, droppings and fruit pulp. There is only one narrow aperture, just big enough for the male to transfer food to the mother and the chicks.

When the chicks have grown too large for the mother to fit in the nest with them, the mother breaks out and rebuilds the wall, after which both parents feed the chicks.

The Malabar Pied Hornbill is a large hornbill, at 65 cm in length. It has mainly black plumage apart from its white belly, throat patch, tail sides and trailing edge to the wings. The bill is yellow with a large, mainly black casque. Sexes are similar, but immatures have a smaller casque.

This species is omnivorous, taking fruit, fish and small mammals. Figs form an important part of their diet and contribute to 60% of their diet from May to February, the non-breeding season and during breeding (March to April) up to 75% of the fruits delivered at the nest were figs. They also feed on other fruits including those of the Strychnos nux-vomica that are known to be toxic to many vertebrates.[1]

In central India, tribals believed that hanging a skull of the hornbill (known as dhanchidiya) brought wealth.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ Balasubramanian, P.; R. Saravanan and B. Maheswaran (2004) Fruit preferences of Malabar Pied Hornbill Anthracoceros coronatus in Western Ghats, India. Bird Conservation International 14: S69-S79 doi:10.1017/ S095927090500024 9
  2. ^ Hislop, Stephen (1866). Papers relating to the Aboriginal tribes of the Central Provinces. Chief Commisioner of the Central Provinces, Nagpur. p. 6. http://www.archive.org/stream/papersrelatingto00hislrich#page/n24/mode/1up. 

References

  • BirdLife International (2004). Anthracoceros coronatus. 2006. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. www.iucnredlist.org. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes a brief justification of why this species is near threatened
  • Birds of India by Grimmett, Inskipp and Inskipp, ISBN 0-691-04910-6

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