Visayan Tarictic Hornbill Penelopides panini

The Visayan Tarictic Hornbill is native to the Philippines, but to only 4 islands and is considered endangered.

They live high in the tree canopy with a diet of fruit and some invertebrates. The name "tarictic" relates to the call.

Males have glossy black-green wings and buff fronts with white or pink bare skin round the eye and dark bills; females (above left/centre) have dark fronts and blue skin around the eye.

They are highly endangered through deforestation and hunting. There used to be two subspecies but one, the Ticao, is now believed to be extinct. "Abundant" at the start of the 20th century, almost all forest on its island has been replaced by plantations and human dwellings and the last sighting of the hornbill was in the 1970s.