Visayan Hornbill

Penelopides panini

Endangered · IUCN Red List

ENEndangeredEndemicFruitForestCavity nestLarge · 471 g

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The adults show sexual dimorphism. The male has a creamy-white head and neck, a white upper chest, a reddish-brown lower chest and uppertail-coverts, and a creamy-white buff tail with a broad black tip. The bill and casque are blackish; the former with yellowish ridges. The bare ocular skin is pinkish-white. The tail and bill of the female resemble that of the male, but otherwise the plumage of the female is black, and the ocular skin is blue. Visayan hornbills live in groups and frequent the canopy of rainforests.

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When to see the Visayan Hornbill

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 11 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is April, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Visayan Hornbill

Regular range

The map shades 1 country with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

About the Visayan Hornbill

The Visayan hornbill is a hornbill found in tropical moist lowland forests of the Philippines in the Western Visayas region which includes the islands of Panay, Negros and formerly as well as the island of Masbate, and formerly Ticao, in the Philippines. As is the case with all five Philippine tarictic hornbills, formerly considered to be just one species, it is declining due to habitat destruction, hunting and the illegal wildlife trade.

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