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hi again
i have this massive and high quality rhino horn piece , it looks like a water dropper of some kind, it has a hole on the bird head and there is a place to fill with water , i wanted to know if anyone know what it was used for and some information about the age ,

thank you all again

Yes its a watterdropper uysed to add water to ink cakes and grind to an inkpaste...
Slightly crude workmanship makes me think later 19th century (Possible early 20th)

Looks to me to be water buffalo horn, or possibly Umimatsu/black coral. If it is a water dropper, it's what is used in calligraphy to make ink on an inkstone by dropping few drops of water on it along with dry ink ground off an inkstick. Can't really help with age, it does look to have some age to it though.

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