Borneo feather quiz

["Philip Veerman" <>]

I went to the festivities at Queanbeyan yesterday afternoon and in addition to performances by the Hungarian, Pacific islanders, belly dancers, eagle dancers, 3 Colombian girls wearing big hats with ostrich feathers and what looked like spangled shoelaces as their only below-waist clothing, there was a children’s dance group from Borneo. They all had headdress on featuring a feather that I asked about but the only answer I got was that it is from a large bird that lives in Borneo. Without a bird to go on, my description is this: clearly a tail feather, that is very similar to that of a Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo except for the colour. It is all white with a broad subterminal black band, like the red on the Red-tailed Black-Cockatoo across both vanes. Can anyone enlightened me? Here is a hint, I don’t know the answer. I don’t have any books on birds from there. I suspect a hornbill or similar. I wouldn’t think a raptor because the feather wasn’t firm enough.

Philip