Yunnan photographed the image of the two-horned hornbill sealing the nest. What different experiences can this image bring us?

In Yingjiang County, Dehong Prefecture? China hornbill valley? Several nature and ecological photographers recently photographed a rare image of a female hornbill entering a tree hole to brood and closing the hole with her big mouth to shrink it. According to experts, sealing tree holes in this way can avoid being hurt and influenced by snakes and other animals when hatching eggs. The video footage taken by the photographer shows that the female hornbill in the tree hole picks up some muddy substances from the tree hole with its big mouth from time to time and smears them on the wall of the tree hole over and over again. When the male bird came to feed, the female bird took the fruit and wiped some berries on the wall of the tree hole.

Zuo Changsheng, deputy director of Yingjiang Management and Protection Branch of Yunnan Tongbiguan Provincial Nature Reserve Management and Protection Bureau, said that the recorded nesting image of the hornbill is of great significance to the conservation research of this species. Yingjiang County recorded some important behavior images of hornbills, such as foraging, courtship, nesting, brooding and leaving the nest. The new list of national key protected wild animals was published, and the two-horned hornbill, crested hornbill and crested hornbill were also included in the first-class protection. At present, these three species of hornbills have stable observation records in Yingjiang County.

Hornbill: It is a large bird with a body length of 1 19- 128 cm, a wingspan of 146- 160 cm and a weight of 2. 15-4 kg. Males are bigger. The back and neck are white, and the rest are black. The tail is white with black secondary spots. The big wings have white terminal spots, the primary feathers are white, and obvious white wing spots are formed on the wings, which are extremely eye-catching on the black wings. The chest of the lower body is black, and the rest of the lower body is white. Both the mouth and the helmet process are large, the base is black, the mouth end and the top of the helmet process are orange red, the mouth side is orange yellow, and the lower mouth is milky white.

It mainly inhabits the evergreen broad-leaved forest in the low hills and plains below the altitude of1500m, especially in the valleys near the fast-flowing streams in the forest. China, India, Myanmar, Thailand, zhina Peninsula, Malaysia and Indonesia.