Great Indian Hornbill
Buceros bicornis
Range description 6
Buceros bicornis has a wide distribution, occurring in China (rare resident in west and south-west Yunnan and south-east Tibet), India (locally fairly common, but declining), Nepal (local and uncommon, largely in protected areas), Bhutan (fairly common), Bangladesh(vagrant), Myanmar (scarce to locally common resident throughout), Thailand (widespread, generally scarce but locally common), Lao PDR(formerly common; currently widespread but scarce and a major decline has clearly occurred), Viet Nam (rare and declining resident), Cambodia (rare), peninsular Malaysia (uncommon to more or less common) and Indonesia: the species is now uncommon on Sumatra where it has shown a significant decline following recent devastation of the island's lowland forest (K. D. Bishop in litt. 2012).
Sources and Credits
- (c) Lip Kee Yap, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://farm1.static.flickr.com/183/449261975_201cffa7a3_o.jpg
- (c) James Dowling-Healey, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://animaldiversity.org/collections/contributors/james_dowlinghealey/Hornbillgiantindian/medium.jpg
- (c) anonymous, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://csdb.ioz.ac.cn/images/Upload_images/Animalia/Chordata/Aves/Coraciiformes/Bucerotidae/Buceros/bicornis/A7F39615-954C-4F6B-9C60-BD2F5152AF0A.jpg
- (c) anonymous, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://csdb.ioz.ac.cn/images/Upload_images/Animalia/Chordata/Aves/Coraciiformes/Bucerotidae/Buceros/bicornis/C29BCA3B-A7EE-4567-9ABD-D0FA60FE0C2A.jpg
- (c) James Maughn, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://farm9.staticflickr.com/8604/16300485955_11feaa2d54_o.jpg
- (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/34343417
