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Austen's Brown Hornbill

Anorrhinus austeni

Near Threatened · IUCN Red List

NTNear ThreatenedFruitForestCavity nestLarge · 1.1 kg
Austen's Brown Hornbill (Anorrhinus austeni), photo 1
Photo: Supratim Deb · CC BY 4.0
Austen's Brown Hornbill (Anorrhinus austeni), photo 2
Photo: desertnaturalist · CC BY 4.0
Austen's Brown Hornbill (Anorrhinus austeni), photo 3
Photo: desertnaturalist · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

Austen's brown hornbill has dark brown upperparts (back, wings, and tail) with a lighter-coloured belly, cheeks, and throat. It has a white-tipped tail and wings and has blue-coloured bare skin around the eyes. The species is sexually dimorphic. The bill and casque are ivory white in females and cream-coloured in males. Females have a grey-brown throat, belly, and cheeks, whereas males have a whitish throat and cheeks with a reddish belly. The female also has a yellow wash below the eye. Voice: Austen's brown hornbill is a noisy bird. It makes loud screams, croaks, chisels, low cackles, squeals, and a nasal "ank-ank-ank" call. It sounds similar to the Malabar pied hornbill and the bushy-crested hornbill but less harsh. It often does noisy contact calling when feeding.

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When to see the Austen's Brown Hornbill

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 7 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is March, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Austen's Brown Hornbill

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 5 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

India Thailand Vietnam Myanmar (Burma) Laos

Recorded as a rare visitor in Cambodia.

About the Austen's Brown Hornbill

Austen's brown hornbill, also known as the white-throated brown hornbill or brown hornbill, is a medium-sized species of hornbill found in forests from northeastern India to Vietnam and northern Thailand. It is rare throughout its range and is threatened by habitat loss and fragmentation.

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Easily confused with

Tickell's Brown Hornbill (Anorrhinus tickelli) Tickell's Brown HornbillAnorrhinus tickelliAt about 60–65 cm (24–26 in) in length, it is a medium-sized hornbill, dark brown above and red-brown below. Bushy-crested Hornbill (Anorrhinus galeritus) Bushy-crested HornbillAnorrhinus galeritusThe bushy-crested hornbill is a bird in the hornbill family.

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