Oriental pied hornbill

Oriental pied hornbill
Male (left) and female (right)
Kinabatangan River, Borneo
CITES Appendix II (CITES)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Bucerotiformes
Family: Bucerotidae
Genus: Anthracoceros
Species:
A. albirostris
Binomial name
Anthracoceros albirostris
(Shaw, 1808)

The oriental pied hornbill (Anthracoceros albirostris) is an Indo-Malayan pied hornbill, a large canopy-dwelling bird belonging to the family Bucerotidae.[2] Two other common names for this species are Sunda pied hornbill (convexus) and Malaysian pied hornbill.[3]

The oriental pied hornbill is considered to be among the smallest and most common of the Asian hornbills. It has the largest distribution in the genus and occurs in the Indian Subcontinent and throughout Southeast Asia. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Its diet includes fruit, insects, shellfish, small reptiles and small mammals and birds including their eggs.

  1. ^ a b BirdLife International (2020). "Anthracoceros albirostris". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2020: e.T22682437A184925767. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2020-3.RLTS.T22682437A184925767.en. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference kinnaird was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Kemp, A.C.; Boesman, P. (2014). Hand book of the birds of the world alive. Barcelona, Spain: Lynx Edicions.