The Great Hornbill is distributed from the southern Himalayas east through southern China to Vietnam and south through the Malay Peninsula to Sumatra. There s a disjunct population in the Western Ghats of south-west India.

It is found in undisturbed evergreen forest at up to 2,000 metres.

It is a very large hornbill with a black band across the white tail and white on the head neck wing-coverts. These are usually tinged yellow with preen oil.