Sunda Wrinkled Hornbill

by Barry Kent MacKay

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$683

Dimensions

16.000 x 12.000 x 0.250 inches

Title

Sunda Wrinkled Hornbill

Artist

Barry Kent MacKay

Medium

Painting - Oil On Compressed Hardboard

Description

Thus small oil painting is of a pair of Sunda Wrinkled Hornbills (Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus). They are native to the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo. I have put the female in front of the male, easily distinguished by his garish colouring. The “wrinkled” in the name refers to a variable degree of corrugation (as reflected in the scientific name) in the beak and the “casque”, a variably shaped structure on top of, and part of, the large beak. The Sunda Wrinkled Hornbill is monogamous, mates for life and in classic hornbill fashion the female seals herself into a cavity in a tree with mud and excreta, leaving a slit through which the male can feed her and her chicks until they are old enough to break out and enter the tropical forests which provides the fruit and small animals that constitute their diet. This beautiful, fascinating bird is now an endangered species. The painting is 12 X 16 inches in oils on compressed hardboard.

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October 22nd, 2022

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