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Helmeted Hornbill № 171

Helmeted Hornbill

Rhinoplax vigil

The call starts as slow, hollow knocks like an axe in a trunk and speeds up into maniacal laughter. The Malay name, tebang mentua, recalls a man who chopped down his mother-in-law's house.

Photo · Ian Dugdale · CC BY 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Cropped and resized.

Call · lunarjade · CC BY-NC 4.0 · source · iNaturalist. Trimmed to 30 seconds, volume normalised.

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