Wrinkled hornbill: Difference between revisions

▲| species = '''''A. corrugatus'''''

▲| binomial_authority = ([[Coenraad Jacob Temminck|Temminck]], 1832)

▲| range_map = Wrinkled Hornbill habitat.png

▲| range_map_caption = Wrinkled Hornbill range

▲The '''Wrinkled Hornbill''' or '''Sunda Wrinkled Hornbill''' ''(Aceros corrugatus)'' is a medium-large [[hornbill]] which is found in forest in the [[Thai-Malay Peninsula]], [[Sumatra]] and [[Borneo]]. It has sometimes been placed in the [[genus]] ''[[Rhyticeros]]'' togther with most other species generally placed in ''[[Aceros]]''.

▲The Wrinkled Hornbill is around 70 [[centimeter|cm]] long, and has a very large bill that is fused to the [[skull]]. It has mainly [[black]] [[plumage]], a blue eye-ring, and a broadly white or rufous-tipped tail. The male and female have different head and bill [[pattern]]s. Males have bright yellow feathers on the auriculars, cheeks, throat, neck-sides and chest, but these areas are black in the female, except for the blue throat. The bill of the male is yellow with a red base and casque, and a brownish basal half of the lower mandible. The bill and casque of the female is almost entirely yellow.

▲This is a [[forest]] [[species]] and eats mainly [[fruit]], such as [[fig]]s, although it will also eat small [[animal]]s such as [[frog]]s and [[insect]]s. Wrinkled Hornbills do not drink, but get the [[water]] they need from their food. Their call is a harsh "Kak-kak," or a deep "Row-wow" which can be heard for miles.

▲These birds are [[monogamous]] and remain in a pair for life. They use holes found in [[tree]]s for [[Bird nest|nest]]s, and the female will plaster over the entrance with [[mud]] and [[feces|dropping]]s, leaving a nesting mother and her chicks only a small hole, too small for them to exit. They are fed exclusively by the male, who [[regurgitation|regurgitate]]s [[food]] for them. After several months, when the chicks are ready, the female will break out of her nest.