Burung tropis (Tropical Birds)
Sulu Hornbill
Anthracoceros montani
- legendaris
- 32 km/h
- Kritis
Fewer than 30 remain on two small Philippine islands. Delivers messages from a forest running out of canopy.
- Populasi
- 1-49 mature individuals (fewer than 20 pairs in the core range); an estimate puts it at ~27 individuals. Confined mainly to a single forest patch on Tawi-Tawi.
- Habitat
- Primary dipterocarp forest, typically on mountain slopes; lower elevation limit of 0m with a 2018 survey record at ~250m in Panglima Sugala, Tawi-Tawi; requires large trees for nesting and will visit isolated fruiting trees away from forest edges.
- Fakta menarik
- The Sulu Hornbill is one of the rarest birds on Earth, with its entire known wild population confined to a single forest patch of about 10 square kilometers on Tawi-Tawi Island in the Philippines.
- Sebaran
- Endemic to the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines; now confirmed only on Tawi-Tawi Island, with the core population concentrated in a forest patch of roughly 10 km²; extirpated from Jolo Island since the 1930s.
- Makanan
- Mainly fruit (frugivorous, favors figs), supplemented with small lizards/reptiles and insects.
- Ukuran
- 0,7 m
- Masa hidup
- 5,8 tahun
