Endangered
Wrinkled hornbill
Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus
The wrinkled hornbill or Sunda wrinkled hornbill is a medium-large hornbill that is found in forest in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo.
Appearance
The wrinkled hornbill is around 70 cm long, and has a very large bill that is fused to the skull. It has mainly black plumage, a blue eye-ring, and a broadly white or rufous-tipped tail. The male and female have different head and bill patterns.
Range and habitat
The wrinkled hornbill or Sunda wrinkled hornbill is a medium-large hornbill that is found in forest in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. This is a forest species and eats mainly fruit, such as figs, although it will also eat small animals such as frogs and insects. Heavy deforestation in their forest habitat has led them to be uplisted from near threatened to endangered on the IUCN Red List in 2018.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Breeding
After several months, when the chicks are ready, the female will break out of her nest.
In crisis
Wrinkled 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 Wrinkled hornbill, Wikidata item Q27074831. 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.
