Hornbill (J♥)

Hornbill everywhere in Malaysia, if you try, good places to spot hornbills elsewhere in Malaysia are Taman Negara, Fraser's Hill, Langkawi, Gunung Mulu National Park, Kinabatangan, Sabah's Danum Valley and Mount Kinabalu National Park. Many species of hornbill (8 - 9) are found in Malaysia.

Some  of them endangered or only present in small, isolated populations.

The Iban hunted hornbills for the tail feathers, which they use to decorate ceremonial headdresses. A single group of dancers may use as many as 400 feathers on their headdresses, for which they would have to kill about 40 birds. But that's over now. The hornbills nestle in a hole high up in an old tree.  It's the largest birds in the forest.During mating season, male hornbills reportedly use their casqued bills for spectacular head-on collisions in mid-air.

A month or more before mating, the male hornbill begins courting the female by bringing her food. When ready to lay her eggs, the female will enter a nest hole high in the hollow tree. The pair will then spend two or three days plastering up the hole with the female's clay-like droppings — she on the inside, he on the outside — using the sides of their bills as trowels.

The female will remain enclosed for three months as the male delivers food to her and then to the chicks through a small finger hole. She will go through a complete change of her flight feathers while hidden in the nest. Once the nestlings are born, she will break out of the nest and join her mate in provisioning food for their young

Hornbills appear to pair for life. The are banding together to defend a territory against other members of their species. This helps to ensure adequate food supply as well as "exclusive rights" to nesting sites. Hornbills are critical to the dispersal of figs because they eat the entire fruit, including the seed, and then fly long distances, dispersing the seeds widely.  Throughout the world figs grow most abundantly in Sarawak, and about 80 varieties of the figs can be observed there. The best way to see a hornbill is to locate a large wild fig plant and to hide nearby, for figs seem to be the favourite food of the hornbill.

马来犀鸟

马来犀鸟（学名：Buceros rhinoceros）是一种犀鸟。因嘴形粗厚而直，嘴上通常具盔突，形似犀牛角而得名。并趾型，外趾和中趾基部有三分之二互相并合，中趾与内趾基部也有些并合，善于攀援。每年入春后约5～6月由群居转为成对，选择高大树干距地约在16～33米处的树洞为巢，自己并不啄木，均利用天然腐朽或白蚁侵咬的洞穴。栖息于热带、亚热带的山地雨林中，海拔不超过1400米。主要以果实、昆虫、细小的蜥蜴、蛇、啮齿目及较细小的鸟类为食。野生马来犀鸟的寿命可以达35岁。分布在婆罗洲，苏门答腊，爪哇，马来半岛，新加坡和泰国南部。是马来西亚的国鸟。

马来犀鸟体长110～122厘米，翼展152厘米，雄鸟体重2,91千克，雌鸟体重2,36千克。嘴形粗厚而直，嘴上通常具盔突，头盔和强烈的尖端向上弯曲，形似犀牛角而得名。并趾型。马来犀鸟的鸟喙和头盔白色，但在它们的大部份的生命过程中，它们不断地用鸟喙磨擦腺体，分泌一种液体，颜色位于正下方的尾部，合其呈现出橙色和红色的颜色。头、颈、上半体、翅膀、胸部和大腿的底部形成大片的黑色，并具有偏蓝色调。大腿、小腹、肛门区、底面尾部，臀部和尾上覆羽为白色。尾部为纯白色，有宽阔的黑色条纹，占其长度的三分之二。虹膜红色，有黑色圈；睫毛红色；脚和跗棕黑色。雌鸟体羽和雄鸟完全相同，唯一的区别是虹膜白色。