Anthracoceros coronatus
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In 3 days ~70% in a week ~90%
The Malabar pied hornbill (Anthracoceros coronatus), also known as the lesser pied hornbill, is a bird in the hornbill family, a family of tropical near-passerine birds found in the Old World. The Malabar pied hornbill was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in 1780 in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux. The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle, which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. Neither the plate caption nor Buffon's description included a scientific name but in 1783 the Dutch naturalist Pieter Boddaert coined the binomial name Buceros coronatus in his catalogue of the Planches Enluminées. The Malabar pied hornbill is now placed in the genus Anthracoceros that was introduced by the German naturalist Ludwig Reichenbach in 1849. The species is monotypic. The generic name combines the Ancient Greek anthrax, meaning "coal black" and kerōs, meaning "horn". The specific epithet coronatus is Latin for "crowned".
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| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wilpattu National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 2 | Yala National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 3 | Udawalawe National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 4 | Minneriya National Park | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 5 | Bandhavgarh National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 6 | Satpura National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 7 | Nagarhole National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 8 | Kanha National Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 9 | Bandipur National Park | 🇮🇳 India |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 清远长隆动物大越野 | 🇨🇳 China | |
| 2 | Nehru Zoological Park | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 3 | Bronx Zoo | 🇺🇸 United States | |
| 4 | Jijamata Udyaan | 🇮🇳 India | |
| 5 | National Zoological Gardens of Sri Lanka | 🇱🇰 Sri Lanka | |
| 6 | Taraporewala Aquarium | 🇮🇳 India |
Possible
About 30% of wildlife watchers report a Malabar Pied Hornbill sighting in Minneriya National Park on a given day, based on 282 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 39th most-seen of the 155 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 70%, and over a week to about 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
June
In that month about 50% of wildlife watchers report a Malabar Pied Hornbill in Minneriya National Park on a given day, against about 20% in May, October and December, the lowest months. That is one of Minneriya National Park's driest months, with about 20 mm of rain against 340 mm in November.
Between 3 and 6 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Malabar Pied Hornbill sightings with a recorded time, and about half of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is most active around dawn and dusk.
4th of 9
Of the 9 parks where we can rate Malabar Pied Hornbill sightings, Minneriya National Park ranks 4th at about 30%. The best odds are in Wilpattu National Park (Sri Lanka, about 80%), Yala National Park (Sri Lanka, about 70%) and Udawalawe National Park (Sri Lanka, about 40%). All parks ranked.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Malabar Pied Hornbill is recorded against all the birds logged in Minneriya National Park (282 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.
