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SpeciesBucerotiformesBucerotidae
Birds

🐦Great Hornbill

Buceros bicornis Linnaeus, 1758

Le Calao bicorne (Buceros bicornis) est une espèce d'oiseau appartenant à la famille des Bucerotidae. C'est l'animal légendaire du peuple Chin figurant sur le drapeau de l’État du même nom (Birmanie).

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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36
Photos
2
Measurements
10
vs you
≈ 1/22nd of your weight
Conservation status
VUVulnerable

IUCN Red List assessment, 2020.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
2.79 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
33 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Great Hornbill

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
2.79 kg
AVONET
Other figures ↓

Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Figures vary

  • 2.8 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.42 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.51 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.36 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.07 m
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
33 years
AnAge
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Omnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Forest
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Insessorial
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Volume l
2.8 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Great Hornbill yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderBucerotiformes
  5. ›familyBucerotidae
  6. ›genusBuceros
  7. ›speciesBuceros bicornis
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderBucerotiformes
  3. familyBucerotidae
  4. genusBuceros
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. orderBucerotiformes
  11. familyBucerotidae
  12. genusBuceros
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In other languages
calau bicorne (ca), dvojzoborožec žlutozobý (cs), Stor Næsehornsfugl (da), Doppelhornvogel (de), Buceros bicornis (es), keisarisarvinokka (fi) … and 23 more languages
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