- Where to see one
- 3 U.S. zoos in our directory hold wreathed hornbill, confirmed against each zoo's own animal list.
Conservation status
Not Evaluated
This species has not been assessed for the IUCN Red List, so it sits outside the threat scale entirely.
About the wreathed hornbill
The wreathed hornbill is a hornbill of tropical evergreen forests from southern Bhutan and Northeast India through mainland Southeast Asia to Sumatra, Java and Borneo. It is 75 to 90 cm long and black with a pale yellow bill and a white tail. Males have a rufous crown, white face and upper breast and a bright yellow throat, while females are black with a blue throat. Social, it lives in larger flocks than other hornbills and flies long distances to find fruit, mainly figs, which it swallows whole, dispersing the seeds intact. It nests in tree cavities 18 to 28 m up, and the female seals the hole with droppings or mud.
Wreathed Hornbill facts
- It feeds by tossing its head back to swallow large fruit whole, a method called ballistic food transport.
- Its bill develops ridges, or wreaths, and the foremost ridge breaks off as the bird matures.
- A GPS-tracked male dispersed seeds up to 10.8 km from its nesting site.
- It cannot excavate its own nest, so it searches for existing tree cavities.
Where to see wreathed hornbill in the U.S.
3 zoos across 2 states
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