Rangkong (Hornbills)
Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
Bycanistes brevis
- epik
- 45 km/h
- Risiko rendah
Female seals herself in a mud-plastered cavity, receives fruit through a slit. The male delivers every meal for months.
- Populasi
- Not quantified; described as locally common but patchily distributed, with a decreasing population trend
- Habitat
- Tall subtropical/tropical moist montane and lowland evergreen forest, also dry forest and adjacent savanna woodland/gallery forest, from sea level to about 2,600 m elevation
- Fakta menarik
- Outside the breeding season, silvery-cheeked hornbills gather at communal roosts that can number in the hundreds of individuals.
- Sebaran
- Eastern and southern Africa: resident from Ethiopia and South Sudan/Sudan south through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe to marginal populations in South Africa (vagrant in Eritrea); extent of occurrence roughly 2,420,000 km²
- Makanan
- Omnivorous — mainly fruit (especially figs, from 26+ plant genera), supplemented with insects, spiders, small birds, rodents, small reptiles and centipedes
- Ukuran
- 0,78 m
- Masa hidup
- 15 tahun
