Rhinoceros hornbill: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Where the rhinoceros hornbill lives – recorded in 2 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Scientific name	Buceros rhinoceros
Group	Woodpeckers, kingfishers, hornbills & toucans
Status	Vulnerable (Wikidata, IUCN category label)
Found in	2 countries
Continents	Asia
Mass	2.19 kg (female organism, adult weight); 2.58 kg (male organism, adult weight)
Class	Bird
Order	Bucerotiformes
Family	Bucerotidae

Where does the rhinoceros hornbill live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the rhinoceros hornbill in 2 countries and territories across Asia. Wikidata lists it as endemic to Indonesia.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

How big is a rhinoceros hornbill?

Wikidata records the following for the rhinoceros hornbill: mass 2.19 kg (female organism, adult weight); 2.58 kg (male organism, adult weight).

Is the rhinoceros hornbill endangered?

The rhinoceros hornbill’s conservation status recorded in Wikidata is “Vulnerable” (an IUCN Red List category label). Source: Wikidata.

What kind of animal is the rhinoceros hornbill?

The rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) is a bird in the order Bucerotiformes and the family Bucerotidae, genus Buceros. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the rhinoceros hornbill

The rhinoceros hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) is a large species of forest hornbill. In captivity, it can live for up to 35 years. It is found in lowland and montane, tropical and subtropical climates and in mountain rain forests up to 1,400 metres in the Malay Peninsula from southern Thailand; and the islands of Singapore, Borneo, Sumatra and Java.

The rhinoceros hornbill is the state bird of the Malaysian state of Sarawak and the country's national bird. It is scheduled as a "totally protected animal" under Sarawak law through the 1998 Wild Life Protection Ordinance.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Rhinoceros hornbill (revision 1380598482), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q751036 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).