Wreathed Hornbill

The wreathed hornbill is a medium-sized hornbill with a body length of 75–90cm; adult males weigh 1.68–3.65kg and females 1.36–2.69kg. Males are black with a rufous crown, a white upper breast and face and a yellow featherless throat, with a distinctive blue-black band on the lower throat sac that gives the bar-pouched name; females are uniformly black with a blue throat. It has been recorded up to 2,560m (Wikipedia, general species account).

It ranges across the foothills and evergreen forests of north-east India and Bhutan to Bangladesh, South-east Asia and the Greater Sunda Islands. It is a frugivore feeding mainly on large fruits that it swallows whole, leaving the seeds intact, which plays an important role in long-distance seed dispersal in forest ecosystems. In Arunachal Pradesh its density is much lower where local people hunt (Wikipedia, general species account).