The bushy-crested hornbill (''Anorrhinus galeritus'') is a bird in the
hornbill family. It is found in
Brunei
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,
Indonesia
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,
Malaysia
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,
Myanmar
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, and
Thailand
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.
Its natural
habitat
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is subtropical or tropical moist lowland
forest
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s.
It lives in groups.
Females have a unique nesting behavior in which they stay alone in a mud-covered tree hole during incubation and are fed by other hornbills from outside the nest.
Diet
The bushy-crested hornbill mainly eats fruit: several different species of
figs
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, Indian Mast Tree (''Polyalthia lateriflora''), ''Oncosperma horridum'', ''
Canarium megalanthum'', ''Canthiumera glabra'', ''Zuccarinia macrophylla'', ''Myristica sp''., ''Horsfieldia sp.'',
champak
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(''Magnolia champaca''), ''Dysoxylum sp.'', ''Fibraurea tinctoria'', ''Endocomia macrocoma'', and ''Alseodaphne falcata''.
References
bushy-crested hornbill
The bushy-crested hornbill (''Anorrhinus galeritus'') is a bird in the hornbill family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
It lives in groups.
...
Birds of Malesia
bushy-crested hornbill
The bushy-crested hornbill (''Anorrhinus galeritus'') is a bird in the hornbill family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand.
Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
It lives in groups.
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Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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