Alagoas Curassow vs White-browed Guan

Mitu mitu مقارنةً بـ Penelope jacucaca

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Side-by-Side Comparison

السمة Alagoas Curassow White-browed Guan
الاسم العلمي Mitu mitu Penelope jacucaca
الرتبة Galliformes Galliformes
الفصيلة Cracidae Cracidae
حالة الحفاظ Extinct in the Wild Vulnerable
الطول
طول الجناح 79,2 cm (31.2 in) 56,1 cm (22.1 in)
الوزن 2852,5 g (100.62 oz) 1438,0 g (50.72 oz)
النظام الغذائي Frugivorous; eats fruits, seeds, and invertebrates in the ground and forest understorey. Extinct in wild; … Eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in Brazilian caatinga dry forests. Vulnerable; forages in canopy …
عدد البيض في الوضع 2-3 2-3
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

الموائل المشتركة

بلا

Alagoas Curassow only

White-browed Guan only

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Song & Call Comparison

Alagoas Curassow

الغناء

Extirpated from wild (EW). Calls documented from captive birds: a deep, resonant booming similar to Razor-billed Curassow; flocks give low, guttural clucking contact calls.

White-browed Guan

الغناء

Emits a loud, resonant honking cackle and wing-whirring display. Calls carry through Caatinga and dry Brazilian forest; one of the more arid-adapted Penelope guans.

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Geographic Range & Migration

Alagoas Curassow

Endemic to northeastern Brazil in Alagoas. Extinct in the wild; survives only in captivity. Last wild record was 1980s.

White-browed Guan

Endemic to the caatinga of northeastern Brazil in Pernambuco, Alagoas, Bahia, and Piauí. Found in dry scrubland.

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حالة الحفاظ

Extinct in the Wild

Alagoas Curassow

Vulnerable

White-browed Guan

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How to Tell Them Apart

Alagoas Curassow

الريش

Glossy black body; white lower belly and undertail; massive compressed red bill with orange-yellow tip; no head ornamentation. Now extinct in wild; the large red razor bill was its most …

White-browed Guan

الريش

Dark brownish-black; distinctive broad white supercilium above bare red facial skin; throat wattled red; breast finely streaked white; lower belly rufous-chestnut; tail long and dark.

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About These Birds

Alagoas Curassow

A large cracid (~2.9 kg) of family Cracidae, with glossy black plumage and a distinctive red knobbed bill. Extinct in the Wild; the last wild individuals disappeared from Alagoas, Brazil by the 1980s due to deforestation of the Atlantic Forest. A captive population survives in Brazilian zoos, with reintroduction programs underway. One of the most critically imperiled birds globally.

White-browed Guan

A large cracid (~1.4 kg) of family Cracidae, with a prominent white supercilium. Endemic to the caatinga scrublands and dry forests of northeastern Brazil. Inhabits dry deciduous forests, gallery forest, and scrubby vegetation. Arboreal frugivore. Vulnerable; one of the few large cracids adapted to Brazil's semi-arid caatinga, threatened by habitat loss and hunting.

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