Bushy-crested hornbill – Anorrhinus galeritus (Temminck, 1831) of Borneo (400m ASL)

Anorrhinus galeritus the Bushy crested Hornbill is a forest hornbill of the Sundaic region occurring in southern Myanmar southern Thailand Peninsular Malaysia Sumatra and Borneo including Brunei. It inhabits primary and mature secondary rainforest from lowlands into hills. Adults are largely dark brown with a bushy crest small casque and bare bluish skin around the eye and throat. Males typically have a black bill while females have a yellow bill with a darker base and juveniles show paler feather tips and an olive tinged bill. Total length is about ninety centimeters and body mass is roughly one point one to one point three kilograms. The species is notably social traveling in cohesive groups and it feeds mainly on fruit with supplementary animal prey such as insects and small vertebrates. Breeding is cooperative the female seals herself within a tree cavity and is provisioned through a narrow slit by the male and often by helpers. The generic name Anorrhinus derives from Greek ano meaning above and rhis or rhinos meaning nose or nostril referring to the upward oriented nostrils while the specific epithet galeritus is Latin for hooded from galerus meaning cap and alludes to the distinctive crest.