Great Hornbill

Buceros bicornis

Bucerotiformes - Bucerotidae - Hornbills

Wild diet: Mainly fruit, rarely flowers & buds, many large insects and other arthropods, small reptiles, birds and mammals. Eats many species of figs (comprised 73% of food delivered to nests). Also takes various lipid-rich fruits from at list 18 genera.

Feeding strategy: Feeds mainly in the canopy, will descend to the ground for fallen fruit. Usually feeds in pairs or family groups.

Wild weight ranges: Male 2600 - 3400g. Female 2155 - 3350g

References

Wild data

Characteristics of hornbill-dispersed fruits in a tropical seasonal forest in Thailand. S Kitamura, T Yumoto, P Poonswad… - Bird Conservation …, 2004 - Cambridge Univ Press

Estimation of nutrients delivered to nest inmates by four sympatric species of hornbills in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand >

FOOD CONSUMED BY GREAT HORNBILL AND RHINOCEROS HORNBILL IN TROPICAL RAINFOREST, BUDO SU-NGAI PADI NATIONAL PARK, THAILAND >

Fruiting Phenology and the Conservation of the Great Pied Hornbill (Buceros bicornis) in the Western Ghats of Southern India >

Handbook Of The Birds Of The World. Vol 6. Mousebirds to Hornbills, Lynx Edicions, Barcelona

Some aspects of food and feeding ecology of sympatrice hornbill species in Khao Yai National Park, Thailand >

The Ecology and Conservation of Asian Hornbills: Farmers of the Forest >