Narcondam Hornbill

Narcondam Hornbill is the bird species hornbill found mostly in Narcondam Island Andaman India. The Narcondam Hornbill has the smallest home male-female have distinct plumage. The Narcondam Hornbill is the small hornbill bird at 66cm 26 inch. The male has refocused head and neck, black body and upper part glossed with green. Female are all black there is a bluish-white throat and whitetail.

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 Narcondam Island is a small Volcanic Island located in the northern Andaman Sea. The Narcondam hornbill is an endangered hornbill that is endemic to Narcondam Island. The Closet living of the bird is Blyth’s Hornbill. The entire population of the bird is 434 estimated population with a density of 54 to 72 birds per square kilometre on the most. A nest site density of 2.8 pair per square kilometre has been estimated. Like another hornbill the Narcondam hornbill feeds mainly on Fruit, fig making up the majority of the diet there is an impressive beak used the reach ripe fruit, a group consisting of up to 50 Narcondam hornbills many congregate. Narcondam hornbill will certainly survive in splendid isolation a wild volcanic outcrop jutting above the storm-tossed water of the Bay of Bengal.