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title: "Wrinkled Hornbill"
description: "Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus — Vogels. The wrinkled hornbill or Sunda wrinkled hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus) is a medium-large hornbill which is found in forest in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/wrinkled-hornbill
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Wrinkled Hornbill

> Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus — Vogels. The wrinkled hornbill or Sunda wrinkled hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus) is a medium-large hornbill which is found in forest in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo.

- Scientific name: *Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos), `jungle` (Jungle)
- iNaturalist observations: 677
- Wikidata: [Q27074831](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27074831)
- iNaturalist taxon: [496008](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/496008)

## Names

- en: Wrinkled Hornbill
- de: Runzelhornvogel
- es: Cálao Arrugado
- fr: Calao à casque rouge
- pt: Calau-enrugado
- pl: Dzioborożec białogardły

## Countries with the most observations

MY (529), ID (30), TH (13)

## Summary

The wrinkled hornbill or Sunda wrinkled hornbill (Rhabdotorrhinus corrugatus) is a medium-large hornbill which is found in forest in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, Sumatra and Borneo.  

The wrinkled hornbill is around 70 cm long, and has a very large bill that is fused to the skull. It has mainly black plumage, a blue eye-ring, and a broadly white or rufous-tipped tail. The male and female have different head and bill patterns. Males have bright yellow feathers on the auriculars, cheeks, throat, neck-sides and chest, but these areas are black in the female, except for the blue throat. The bill of the male is yellow with…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrinkled_hornbill

## Photo

![Wrinkled Hornbill](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/wrinkled-hornbill/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chrissy McClarren and Andy Reago · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/254675997

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/wrinkled-hornbill?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).