Overview
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Critically Endangered |
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Common Names
Common Names in English:
Visayan Wrinkled Hornbill, Walden's Hornbill, Writhed-Billed Hornbill
Description
Habitat
Biome: Terrestrial
Ecology: It inhabits closed-canopy forests
, also frequenting logged areas and occasionally isolated trees
in clearings. It is probably adapted to lower or mid-elevation forest, with records
from 400-1,200 m
on Panay and 300-950 m on Negros. It feeds
in the canopy
on figs and other fruits and may make local nomadic movements in response to food availability. It nests
in large trees.[1]
List of Habitats
: 1.6 Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland
Taxonomy
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
)
- animals
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Chordates
- Class:
Aves
()
- Birds
- Order:
Bucerotiformes
()
- Hornbills
- Genus:
Aceros
()
- Hodgson 1844 Zool.Misc.[Gray,JE] 3 p.85 Author
- Specific name:
waldeni
- (Sharpe) 1877 J.Linn.Soc.LondonZool. 13 p.156
- Scientific name: - Aceros waldeni (Sharpe) 1877
- Specific name:
waldeni
- (Sharpe) 1877 J.Linn.Soc.LondonZool. 13 p.156
- Genus:
Aceros
(
- Order:
Bucerotiformes
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 28-Nov-2006.
Similar Species
Members of the genus Aceros
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 26 species and subspecies in this genus:
A. cassidix (Sulawesi Hornbill) · A. comatus (White-Crowned Hornbill) · A. corrugatus (Sunda Wrinkled Hornbill) · A. corrugatus corrugatus (Sunda Wrinkled Hornbill) · A. corrugatus rugosus · A. distinguenda · A. distinguendos · A. everetti (Everett's Hornbill) · A. leucocephalus (Mindanao Wrinkled Hornbill) · A. leucocephalus leucocephalus (Mindanao Wrinkled Hornbill) · A. leucocephalus waldeni · A. narcondami (Narcondam Hornbill) · A. nepalensis · A. nipalensis (Rufous-Cheeked Hornbill) · A. phyllonyx · A. plicatus · A. plicatus jungei · A. plicatus mendanae · A. plicatus ruficollis · A. plicatus ssp · A. plicatus subruficollis · A. subruficollis · A. undulatus · A. undulatus ticehursti · A. undulatus undulatus · A. waldeni (Visayan Wrinkled Hornbill)
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Further Reading
- Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
- BirdLife International 2006. Threatened Birds of the World 2006. Downloaded from http://www.birdlife.org on 04/05/2006.
- BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
- BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
- Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 and ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 3, 2006.
- Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2663242
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-554440
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 554440
- IUCN ID: 154
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 983
Footnotes
- BirdLife International 2006. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008. [back]
