Female Hornbill
by Cynthia Guinn
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Female Hornbill
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Cynthia Guinn
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Malayan Wreathed Hornbills are large birds, the male being the larger of the sexes. The birds are black with a long, white tail stained yellow with preen gland oil. The females have a black head and males have a rufous crown and nape, with a white face and neck. The iris and bare skin around the eyes are cherry red. Malayan Wreathed Hornbills have a long, heavy dull white bill with a casque of low wreathes across the base of the upper mandible. Below the beak is colorful gular pouch (pouch of inflatable skin); in females, the pouch is blue and in males the pouch is yellow. Both sexes have a blue-black band running through the bottom center of the pouch. The Malayan Wreathed Hornbill is often called the Wreathed Hornbill or the Bar-pouched Hornbill after the bar running across the gular pouch beneath their bill.
Malayan Wreathed Hornbills are found in southeast Asia, in the forested hill ranges of India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei Darussalam, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Bali, and Borneo.
Riverbanks Zoo, Columbia, South Carolina USA.
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