ML612767274
Contributor
Joseph Morlan Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Trans Seram Hwy at Access Road, Seram
Maluku, Maluku, Indonesia
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
We saw this huge hornbill on several islands, but always in flight. Hundreds of years of hunting pressure in Indonesia makes "survival of the skittish" a dominant evolutionary force here. This is a male with rufous head. Females are smaller with a black head. Sometimes called Papuan Hornbill or Papuan Wreathed Hornbill and formerly placed in the genus "Aceros." Sometimes lumped with Plain-pouched Hornbill (R. subruficollis). Hornbills are famous for their odd breeding strategy where the female seals herself in a cavity leaving a hole for her bill. The male brings food to the nest and the female emerges when the young are about half grown.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon PowerShot SX70 HS
- ISO
- 100
- Focal length
- 247 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/6.5
- Shutter speed
- 1/500 sec
- Dimensions
- 1024 pixels x 844 pixels
- Original file size
- 137.6 KB