"There are slightly more than a dozen Oriental Pied Hornbills (
Anthracoceros albirostris) in Singapore’s offshore island of Pulau Ubin. There they breed regularly, nesting in cavities found high up along the trunks of old trees."
See
"Oriental Pied Hornbill - breeding," by Wee Yeow Chin with Jonathan Cheah. Bird Ecology Study Group, 05 Feb 2007.
Related links:
- "Oriental Pied Hornbills partying at Pulau Ubin," by Angie Ng & R Subaraj. Bird Ecology Study Group, 07 Feb 2008.
- "Artificial nesting cavities for hornbills," by Wee Yeow Chin with Angie Ng and Pilai Poonswad. Bird Ecology Study Group, 20 Dec 2008.
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About N. Sivasothi
Sivasothi is lecturing Biodiversity, Ecology, Structure and Function, Marine Biology and Animal Behaviour with the Department of Biological Sciences.
His interests include otters, mangroves, museum databases, coastal ecology, tree-climbing crabs and conservation of biodiversity.
He is also the national coordinator of the International Coastal Cleanup Singapore and Toddycats! Volunteers of the Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, NUS.