Philippine Hornbill Emerges In Sierra Madre Range
PHILIPPINE HORNBILL – A Philippine hornbill, locally called kalaw, recently emerged in the Sierra Madre mountain range.
The kalaw (Buceros hydrocorax), or known as the rufous hornbill, falls under the threatened-vulnerable species, according to manila bulletin.
The DENR’s National List of Threatened Philippine Fauna classified the bird as “endangered” as 9 out of 11 species of hornbill in the Philippines are facing critical numbers.
Photographer Edwin Martinez saw the bird during an expedition at the Sierra Madre mountain range in Infanta, Quezon. He captured photos of kalaw in its natural habitat,
“Ever since I started going to the Sierra Madre Cordilleran belt in Infanta, Quezon, we have always been searching this species. The Kalaw or Rufous Hornbill is the largest hornbill in the Philippines and is endemic in Luzon,”
Like the DENR, Martinez stressed that this elusive bird is “threatened-vulnerable already in terms of classification.”
The photos he took were taken from a long distance and shows a “closer view even though (they) had to go down a muddy cliff”, based on the report.
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The binomial name of rufous hornbill is Buceros hydrocorax.
Buceros is a genus of large Asian hornbills in the hornbill family Bucerotidae. It is a new Latin term which came from the Greek word boukerōs which is derived from two Greek words bous or ‘head of cattle‘ and keras or ‘horn‘.
The species name hydrocorax, on the other hand, might have meant “water crow” or “water raven” and might possibly derived from the two words hydro, which means “water” and corax, which means “crow or raven“.
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