Bushy-crested Hornbill

Bushy-crested Hornbill

Anorrhinus galeritus

Silhouette: Charles J. Sharp and T. Michael Keesey · PhyloPic

LCNTNear ThreatenedVUENCR
Daily sighting probability ~10% · With luck
at Kerinci Seblat National Park

In 3 days ~10% in a week ~30%

28 Verified sightings at Kerinci Seblat National Park From 2019 to 2026
2,263 In all 9 parks
May Best month
🌅 Crepuscular When it's spotted

About the Bushy-crested Hornbill

The bushy-crested hornbill (Anorrhinus galeritus) is a bird in the hornbill family. It is found in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, and Thailand. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.

It lives in groups. Females have a unique nesting behavior in which they stay alone in a mud-covered tree hole during incubation and are fed by other hornbills from outside the nest. The bushy-crested hornbill mainly eats fruit: several different species of figs, Indian Mast Tree (Polyalthia lateriflora), Oncosperma horridum, Canarium megalanthum, Canthiumera glabra, Zuccarinia macrophylla, Myristica sp., Horsfieldia sp., champak (Magnolia champaca), Dysoxylum sp., Fibraurea tinctoria, Endocomia macrocoma, and Alseodaphne falcata. Wikipedia →

Sounds

Call0:45

Malaysia · 2026

© Ding Li Yong · XC1145419 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

Uncertain0:07

Malaysia · 2025

© Nick Talbot · XC1039247 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Call0:44

Malaysia · 2022

© GABRIEL LEITE · XC730917 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

Global Distribution

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Daily sighting probability
1 Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary 🇲🇾 Malaysia
~50%
2 Danum Valley Conservation Area 🇲🇾 Malaysia
~20%
3 Khao Sok National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
~20%
4 Gunung Leuser National Park 🇮🇩 Indonesia
~10%
5 Way Kambas National Park 🇮🇩 Indonesia
~10%
6 Sepilok 🇲🇾 Malaysia
~10%
7 Taman Negara National Park 🇲🇾 Malaysia
~10%
8 Kerinci Seblat National Park 🇮🇩 Indonesia
~10%
9 Khao Luang National Park 🇹🇭 Thailand
<5%

Zoos & Centres Where Found

# Zoo / Centre Country
1 Sriayuthaya Lion Park 🇹🇭 Thailand In captivity
2 Bangkok Aquarium 🇹🇭 Thailand In captivity

Before you go

What are the chances of seeing a Bushy-crested Hornbill in Kerinci Seblat National Park?

With luck

About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Bushy-crested Hornbill sighting in Kerinci Seblat National Park on a given day, based on 28 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 109th most-seen of the 203 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 10%, and over a week to about 30%, if each day is a fresh chance.

When is the best time to see a Bushy-crested Hornbill in Kerinci Seblat National Park?

April–June, August and November

In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Bushy-crested Hornbill in Kerinci Seblat National Park on a given day, against under 5% in February–March, July, September–October and December, the lowest months. January has too few records to rate.

What time of day is best to see a Bushy-crested Hornbill?

Between 9 am and noon

Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Bushy-crested Hornbill sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.

Which relatives of the Bushy-crested Hornbill live in Kerinci Seblat National Park?

Same family: Bucerotidae

The closest relatives of the Bushy-crested Hornbill that you can see in Kerinci Seblat National Park (family Bucerotidae, Hornbills) are Rhinoceros Hornbill (about 20%) and Wreathed Hornbill (about 20%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.

Where does the Bushy-crested Hornbill sighting chance come from?

GBIF citizen-science records

It is estimated from how often the Bushy-crested Hornbill is recorded against all the birds logged in Kerinci Seblat National Park (28 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.

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