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RANGKONG (HORNBILLS)
BUCEROTIDAE
APPEARANCE :
The length is 381 – 1600 mm. the feather looks like wires the
colours, is brown black white or black and white the colours of it’s beak are
red and yellow. It is huge. It surves like a chisel or a common jigsaw. It also
has a crest. It has bright color skin and feathes around its eyes and throat. We
can see the eyelashes clearly. The wings is strong and the tail is long. The
foot are very short ( especially for ground horn bill bucorvus ). The fingers of
it’s foot are big and sindactive the difference of sexval is real for common
species and it is unreal for others.
Ways
of it’s life
The are usually life in couple or in a small group. They live
on trees (especially bucorvus) it’s sound is crowded ( for common species ), the
yell hard and strongly it’s wing sounds while they are flying
Food – it’s omnivorm
Some are fruit eaters
It has six eggs
It’s colour is white
Sat on by hen ( female bird )
Spreading in Indonesia : Sumatera , Kalimantan
Spreading other regions : Malaysia, Thailand
Habitat : in forests
Status
Protected – based on wild animal conservation decree number – 266,1931.
continued number 5,1990 about conservation of life natural resources and it’s
ecosystem. Strengthem by issued the forest minster decree – number 301 / decree
– II / 1991, on 10 june 1991. all kinds / species of rangkong are protected.
Dokumentasi : Pemkab Muaro Jambi