Endangered
Mindoro Hornbill
Penelopides mindorensis
Mindoro Hornbill is a bird in the family Bucerotidae (order Bucerotiformes) — Penelopides mindorensis, recorded as Endangered.
Appearance
It is unique among them as other tarictics show a great deal of sexual dimorphism in that males have white heads and breasts while females are almost uniformly black. In the case of the Mindoro Hornbill, both males and females have white heads and bellies with the only physical features to distinguish sexes being the facial skin in that the females' are blue with the male's being pink in color. It is the only tarictic hornbill where both sexes are creamy-white and black.
Range and habitat
It is endemic to forests on Mindoro in the Philippines found in tropical moist lowland forests. It is threatened by habitat loss, and is consequently considered endangered by the IUCN.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
All hornbills are monogamous and mate for life.They are cavity nesters and rely on large dipterocarp trees for breeding. The female seals itself within the tree cavity and the male is in charge of gathering food for its mate and chicks.
The male stores food in a gular pouch and regurgitates it to feed its mate and chicks. Among the tarictics, this species is one of the least studied but breeding habits believed to be similar to the better studied Luzon hornbill.
In crisis
It is illegal to hunt, capture or possess these birds under Philippine Law RA 9147. The IUCN Red List classifies this bird as an endangered species with population estimates of 250 to 999 mature individuals that is the lowest estimate among all five tarictic species. It is threatened by habitat loss with Mindoro having a great loss of forest in recent decades.
The lowland forest that does remain is highly fragmented and is still under threat. Kaingin or Slash-and-burn cultivation, occasional selective logging and rattan collection threaten the forest fragments that still support the species.
Mindoro Hornbill is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Mindoro Hornbill, Wikidata item Q253218. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
