Country: Thailand
Date of Issue: 12/04/1996
Price: 2baht each
Birds:
White Crowned Hornbill - Berenicornis comatus
Rufous Necked Hornbill - Aceros nipalensis
Plain Pouched Hornbill - Rhyticeros subruficollis
Rhinoceros Hornbill - Buceros rhinoceros
Description: This Maxcards were issued to commemorate the 2nd International Asian Hornbill Workshop held during 12th - 18th April 1996. The purposeof the workshop was to promote preservation of Asian tropical forests and the endangered hornbills. The cancellation seal has emblem of Rhinoceros Hornbill and it is cancelled at Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.
Facts:
Breeding: In groups
Life Span: 30 years
Breeding: Monogamous
Date of Issue: 12/04/1996
Price: 2baht each
Birds:
White Crowned Hornbill - Berenicornis comatus
Rufous Necked Hornbill - Aceros nipalensis
Plain Pouched Hornbill - Rhyticeros subruficollis
Rhinoceros Hornbill - Buceros rhinoceros
Description: This Maxcards were issued to commemorate the 2nd International Asian Hornbill Workshop held during 12th - 18th April 1996. The purposeof the workshop was to promote preservation of Asian tropical forests and the endangered hornbills. The cancellation seal has emblem of Rhinoceros Hornbill and it is cancelled at Bangkok, the capital of Thailand.
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| White Crowned Hornbill |
White-crowned
Hornbill - Berenicornis comatus
Status: Near Threatened
Habitat: Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar
and Thailand.
Threats:
Deforestation
and logging.
Diet: Fruits, insects, snakes, lizards and small
birds.
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| Rufous Necked Hornbill |
Rufous-necked
Hornbill - Aceros nipalensis
Status: Vulnerable
Habitat: Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Thailand, Tibet,Vietnam.
Threats: Hunting and habitat loss
Diet: Fruits, figs, insects, lizards and
small birds.
Facts:
Wildlife Trust
of India introduced a programme for replacing the use of real beaks with
fibre-made replicas for the tribals.
The Rufous-necked
Hornbill communities move seasonally between one forested area to another to
avail of the differing abundance of fruiting trees due to local conditions.
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| Plain Pouched Hornbill |
Plain-pouched
Hornbill - Rhyticeros subruficollis
Status: Vulnerable
Habitat: Burma,
Malaysia, Thailand
Threats:
Deforestation and hunting.
Diet: Fruits,
insects and small animals.
Breeding: In groups
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| Rhinoceros Hornbill |
Rhinoceros Hornbill - Buceros
rhinoceros
Status: Near Threatened
Habitat: Brunei
Darussalam, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore & Thailand.(lowland ever
green forest)
Threats:
Deforestation, logging and hunting for meat, its feathers and its casque, which
can be carved into an ornament.
Diet: Fruit,
insects, small reptiles, rodents and smaller birds.
Life Span: 30 years
Breeding: Monogamous
Facts:
The Rhinoceros
Hornbill is the state bird of the Malaysian state of Sarawak.
For some Dayak
people, it represents their war god, Singalang Burong.
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