Rhyticeros cassidix, so he was greeted in its scientific name. Sulawesi people (especially in the North) are widely known as the Bird YEARS, or too Alo. While in Indonesia, where he was given the looming Sulawesi, also known as hornbills. Bird species endemic to the island of Sulawesi, and also classified as species of birds protected by the Government Regulation (PP No. 7 of 1999).
Habit of flying high above the jungle canopy and also perch in the branches of a tall tree, a prohibitive factor (especially for me) to preserve it in a paper photo. But maybe not for a friend on this one.
Last week, at the end in May 2008, I visited a forest, or rather the remaining forested area, which was once cultivated as a concession area in the region Bolaang Mongondow, North Sulawesi. Two days I observed the bird in there. And the results were pretty. At least there we can still find some kind of fruit-eating bird that is usually used as an indicator of forest health, one of them yes it's hornbills.
On the way home back to the camp, along the former logging road, a female hornbills was relaxing on one of the branches of a tree whose height is approximately 25 meters from the ground. It lies right on the side of the road and without this barrier,