Description
It is a medium-sized hornbill, brown with white-tipped tail. The male has white cheeks and throat, pale creamy bill, and rufous-brown underparts. The female has a dark head and throat. It inhabits the deciduous and evergreen forests from lowland plains to edge of pine and oak forest in hills, but mainly in the hill forest. It feeds on fruit and small animals; its diet includes many species of fruits, together with many arthropods, also bats, snakes, lizards, snails, earthworms, and chicks and eggs of other birds. It occurs in territorial groups of 2–15. It is a co-operative breeder, with a dominant breeding pair, male Helpers_at_the_nest, helpers and additional females. They nest in natural cavities or in old holes of the great slaty woodpecker. In India, the best place to see this species is the Namdapha National Park, Changlang District, Arunachal Pradesh. The name commemorates the naturalist Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen.References
Hornbills, Austen's brown hornbill Birds of Northeast India Birds of Southeast Asia Birds of Myanmar Birds of Vietnam Birds of Laos Birds of Cambodia Birds of Thailand Birds described in 1872, Austen's brown hornbill {{Coraciiformes-stub