Calao pie de Malabar

Anthracoceros coronatus

Un grand calao noir et blanc avec un énorme bec et un casque. Le plumage est presque entièrement noir, à l'exception du blanc sur le ventre et les côtés de la gorge. Les sexes sont similaires, sauf que la femelle a une tache blanche autour de l'œil. En vol, notez la queue blanche avec une pointe noire, et les ailes noires avec une fine barre blanche au milieu et un épais bord blanc. Il habite les forêts sempervirentes et décidues, ainsi que leurs lisières. Ses cris incluent des claquements et des braiements sonores et souvent d'apparence maniaque.

Identification

The Malabar pied hornbill is a large hornbill, at 65 cm (26 in) in length. It has mainly black plumage, apart from its white belly, throat patch, tail sides and trailing edge to the wings. The bill is yellow with a large, mainly black casque. Females have white orbital skin, which the males lack. Juveniles have no casque. It might be confused with the oriental pied hornbill. They weigh around 1kg (2.2 pounds).

Taxonomie

The Malabar pied hornbill was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Buceros coronatus in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The Malabar pied hornbill is now placed in the genus Anthracoceros that was introduced by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1849. The species is monotypic. The generic name combines the Ancient Greek anthrax, meaning "coal black" and kerōs, meaning "horn". The specific epithet coronatus is Latin for "crowned".

Nom scientifique
Anthracoceros coronatus
Autorité
(Boddaert, 1783)
Ordre
Bucerotiformes
Famille
Bucérotidés
Genre
Anthracoceros

Répartition et habitat

The Malabar pied hornbill is a common resident breeder in India and Sri Lanka. Its habitat is evergreen and moist deciduous forests, often near human settlements. It is distributed across three main regions within the Indian sub-continent: Central and Eastern India, along the Western Ghats, and in Sri Lanka. In Central and Eastern India, it ranges from western West Bengal through parts of Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, northern and eastern Maharashtra, northern Andhra Pradesh, and north-east tip of Telangana. Along the Western Ghats, the species is distributed in pockets along the eastern slopes and in the Konkan belt and west coast from western Maharashtra through Goa, western Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, and in Kerala. In Sri Lanka, the species occurs mainly in the low country and dry zone forests as well as home gardens.

Migration
Resident species

Conservation

Tendance de la population
declining

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Distribution

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