The bird my fellow trekkers and I are after is the ancient, bizarre-looking, and now increasingly rare helmeted hornbill. The leader of our group is Pilai Poonswad, a Thai scientist known as the ...

The mist hung heavy on the Kinabatangan River on the July morning I looked for helmeted hornbills, one of the most elusive and endangered birds in the world. Everything was wet from days of ...

Bangkok – Time is running out for Thailand’s dwindling population of helmeted hornbills thanks to poaching of the exotic birds for the ivory-like casques atop their big red and yellow beaks.

The helmeted hornbill is a huge, cackling bird native to the tropical forests of Southeast Asia. It has a wrinkly, featherless neck and a long, black-and-white banded tail. Atop its short spike of ...

See All Key Ideas A conservation area in western Borneo holds an unexpectedly rich population of the helmeted hornbill, a bird driven close to extinction by poaching for its distinctive casqued ...

The helmeted hornbill is a bird of lore, featuring in an ancient belief that it sits by a river between life and death. Its feathers have been used in traditional ceremonies. During breeding ...

The helmeted hornbill has a yellow, orange and red growth on its beak and is protected in its various home countries, according to the organization. The bird has attained critically endangered ...

It comes from the helmeted hornbill - a bird that lives in the rainforests of East Asia and is now under threat, writes Mary Colwell. It wouldn't be wise to go head to head with a helmeted hornbill.

The beautiful helmeted hornbill’s amazing beak is so coveted in the Far East that the birds are being shot out of the skies at alarming rates. One bird can be worth £12,000. As many as 500 ...

The Helmeted Hornbill can be found across four countries: Malaysia, Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand and Brunei Darussalam. The birds use the cavities of large, tall rainforest trees to nest as hornbills ...