Anorrhinus galeritus
The Bushy-crested Hornbill (Anorrhinus galeritus) is a distinctive, medium-sized hornbill known for its social nature and unique appearance. Males typically measure 60-65 cm in length and females 50-55 cm, weighing between 1.0 and 1.5 kg. Adults are primarily glossy black, but males are easily identified by their creamy white head, neck, and upper breast, contrasting with the entirely black head and neck of females. Both sexes possess a prominent, shaggy 'bushy' crest, giving the species its ...
Found in dense, humid lowland evergreen and semi-evergreen broadleaf forests, occasionally venturing into secondary growth. Primarily occurs below 1,000 meters elevation, though rarely observed up to 1,500 meters.
Omnivorous, with a diet predominantly comprising fruits (especially figs, Ficus spp.), supplemented by a wide variety of insects (mantids, beetles, stick insects) and small vertebrates (lizards, frogs, nestlings).
Bushy-crested Hornbills are highly social and diurnal, often seen in noisy groups of 3-10 individuals, sometimes congregating into larger flocks of 20-30 for foraging or roosting communally in large trees. They are primarily arboreal foragers, systematically searching the forest canopy for fruits...
The Bushy-crested Hornbill is a resident species found across the Indo-Malayan realm. Its primary distribution includes the Tenasserim region of southern Myanmar, extreme southern Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and Borneo (encompassing Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan). This specie...
Near Threatened
- The Bushy-crested Hornbill is one of only three species in the genus Anorrhinus, all known for their unusual cooperative breeding behavior. - The female seals herself into the nest cavity using mud, fruit pulp, and feces, relying entirely on her mate and helpers for food during incubation and e...