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More on hornbills locking bills

on 28th May 2009

Further to the post on the Malabar Pied Hornbills (Anthracoceros coronatus) locking bills in India, we bring you two other accounts:

1. Dr Jonathan WK Cheah sent an image taken in Singapore of a female Rhinoceros Hornbill (Buceros rhinoceros) perching outside the nesting cavity locking bills with a female great hornbill (Buceros bicronis) that had just entered the cavity (left). Details of this aberrant courtship ritual between two females of different species have been described HERE.

2. Dr Geoffrey Davison’s encounter: “I was birdwatching along the Kinabatangan River in Sabah, Malaysia… We saw a pair of Rhinoceros Hornbills, the male and female perched on opposite sides of the bare crown of a dead tree. The male then flew to the female, they crossed and joined their half-open bills, and the male still in flight (he didn’t land when they crossed bills) continued on to another tree some distance away. The female just sat where she had been.”

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YC Wee

Dr Wee played a significant role as a green advocate in Singapore through his extensive involvement in various organizations and committees: as Secretary and Chairman for the Malayan Nature Society (Singapore Branch), and with the Nature Society (Singapore) as founding President (1978-1995). He has also served in the Nature Reserve Board (1987-1989), Nature Reserves Committee (1990-1996), National Council on the Environment/Singapore Environment Council (1992-1996), Work-Group on Nature Conservation (1992) and Inter-Varsity Council on the Environment (1995-1997). He is Patron of the Singapore Gardening Society and was appointed Honorary Museum Associate of the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM) in 2012. In 2005, Dr Wee started the Bird Ecology Study Group. With more than 6,000 entries, the website has become a valuable resource consulted by students, birdwatchers and researchers locally and internationally. The views and opinions expressed in this article are his own, and do not represent those of LKCNHM, the National University of Singapore or its affiliated institutions.

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