Male of the black hornbill – Anthracoceros malayanus (Raffles, 1822) – of Borneo (400m ASL)

Anthracoceros malayanus is a Sundaic lowland hornbill of the family Bucerotidae that occurs from southern Thailand through Peninsular Malaysia Sumatra and Borneo where it inhabits primary evergreen forest mostly below two hundred metres and locally up to about six hundred metres often along rivers and floodplains. It is assessed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List with declines driven chiefly by loss of lowland forest and hunting. Like other hornbills it is a canopy frugivore and an important seed disperser including for the durian Durio graveolens and it nests in natural tree cavities with the female sealing herself inside during incubation and chick care while the male provisions at the entrance.
The genus name Anthracoceros combines the Greek anthrax meaning coal and keras meaning horn and the specific epithet malayanus denotes origin in the Malay region with the species originally described as Buceros malayanus from Malacca by Raffles 1822.