Endangered Juvenile Visayan Hornbill - Penelopides panini

First time to see this Hornbill in the same hiking trail that I have visited in the last 3 years.
However, this juvenile seems to be kept by someone in a remote village. It is not tied with rope or kept in cages but it seems not to be wild, perching on a clothes line next to the villager's house. I saw it flew in short distance and allows me to get within a meter's distance but the villagers asked me not to go near it.

I am not 100% sure if its Visayan Hornbill - Penelopides panini but if the ID is correct, then this species is classified as Endagered!

comments (3)

Ferdy Christant

Lion

Bu just visual comparison, I'd guess you're right with the ID. I was initially in doubt because both the sexes have a dark bill in every reference photo I looked at. However, it seems juveniles have a lighter bill:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visayan_hornbill#/media/File:Philippine_tarictic_hornbill_-chick.jpg Posted 8 years ago
1. Albert Kang
  
  Lion
  
  Yes, that is why I emphasized its a juvenile, which has different appearance compared to the adults. Posted 8 years ago
2. 1. Ferdy Christant
    
    Lion
    
    Whoops, did not read that you already mentioned that, forget my remark. Posted 8 years ago

The Visayan hornbill

The Visayan hornbill is a hornbill found in rainforests on the islands of Panay, Negros, Masbate, and Guimaras, and formerly Ticao, in the Philippines. It formerly included all other Philippine tarictic hornbills as subspecies, in which case the common name of the 'combined species' was shortened to tarictic hornbill.

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Similar species: Hornbills

Species identified by Albert Kang