Also known as Bar-pouched Wreathed Hornbill. Males: length: 100 - 117 cm, body weight: 2.04 -3.65 kg), females: body weight: 1.36 - 2.685 kg. This large hornbill is mostly black, with a fully white tail. Only the male has chestnut-brown on the head, and a bright yellow throat. The female has a bright blue throat. Both the male and female also have an incomplete band or mark on their throat. The casque on the beak is not horn-like, but looks more like a carved piece of wood with neat furrows or wreaths from which it gets its common name. They have a call with three notes that sounds like oek-uk-uk and is repeated several times, sometimes very loudly, at other times more softly. They are found in the forested hills of north-eastern India and also in other countries like Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, peninsular Malaysia, Indonesia on Sumatra and some islands in south-east Asia. The species mainly inhabits lowland foothill semi-evergreen and evergreen forest, but seasonally migrates up to 2,560 meters. It can occur in logged forests and plantations near larger intact forests, provided it is not heavily hunted and if the habitat is not subjected to further degradation. In north-east India, it is commonly seen in Manas, Nameri, Pakke and Namdapha Tiger Reserves.
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