Red-billed Curassow vs Rufous-headed Chachalaca

Crax blumenbachii comparado con Ortalis erythroptera

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Atributo Red-billed Curassow Rufous-headed Chachalaca
Nombre científico Crax blumenbachii Ortalis erythroptera
Orden Galliformes Galliformes
Familia Cracidae Cracidae
Estado de conservación Endangered Vulnerable
Longitud
Envergadura 76,8 cm (30.2 in) 43,8 cm (17.2 in)
Peso 3250,0 g (114.64 oz) 632,5 g (22.31 oz)
Dieta Eats large fruits, seeds, and invertebrates on Atlantic forest floor in Brazil. Critically endangered; diet … Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in Pacific slope forests and forest edges of …
Tamaño de la puesta 1-3 3
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

Hábitats compartidos

Red-billed Curassow only

Ninguno

Rufous-headed Chachalaca only

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Song & Call Comparison

Red-billed Curassow

Canto

Emits a deep, resonant booming call; contact calls are loud, guttural clucking. Endangered; the powerful boom echoes through remnant Atlantic forest; increasingly scarce.

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

Canto

Emits a loud, raucous chachalaca chorus; individual calls are slightly higher than Rufous-vented. Dawn choruses carry across Ecuadorian and Peruvian coastal dry forest.

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Geographic Range & Migration

Red-billed Curassow

Endemic to the Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil in Rio de Janeiro and Espírito Santo. Found in lowland humid forest. Critically endangered.

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

Resident in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Found in tropical deciduous forest and scrub in the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena region.

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Estado de conservación

Endangered

Red-billed Curassow

Vulnerable

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

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How to Tell Them Apart

Red-billed Curassow

Plumaje

Male is glossy black with white lower belly; curly black crest; vivid red bill with no knob; no yellow facial skin. Female is black barred chestnut; bright red bill is …

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

Plumaje

Brownish-olive body; head and upper neck warm rufous-cinnamon, distinctly contrasting with greyish-brown back; bare reddish throat wattle; underparts pale buff; tail dark with pale outer tips.

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About These Birds

Red-billed Curassow

Mutún de Blumenbach (Crax blumenbachii) — Especie en peligro de extinción endémica de los fragmentos de la Mata Atlántica del sur de Bahía, en Brasil. El macho es negro con pico rojo llamativo. En peligro crítico por la casi total pérdida de su hábitat original.

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

A medium-sized cracid (~630 g) of family Cracidae, with a striking rufous head. Inhabits humid and deciduous forests, forest edges, and scrub in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Feeds on fruits and leaves in the forest understory and canopy. Vulnerable due to extensive deforestation in the Tumbesian region, one of the world's most threatened biodiversity hotspots.

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