Sickle-winged Guan vs West Mexican Chachalaca

Chamaepetes goudotii 比較対象 Ortalis poliocephala

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Side-by-Side Comparison

属性 Sickle-winged Guan West Mexican Chachalaca
学名 Chamaepetes goudotii Ortalis poliocephala
Galliformes Galliformes
Cracidae Cracidae
保全状況 Least Concern Least Concern
体長
翼開長 50.7 cm (20.0 in) 52.0 cm (20.5 in)
体重 702.0 g (24.76 oz) 760.0 g (26.81 oz)
食性 Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in Andean foothill and montane forests. Forages at … Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in West Mexican scrub and forest edges. Also …
一腹卵数 2-3 2-3
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

共通生息地

Sickle-winged Guan only

None

West Mexican Chachalaca only

None

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Song & Call Comparison

Sickle-winged Guan

さえずり

Emits a loud, resonant cackling call and loud wing-whirring. The guan call carries through Andean cloud forest; wing-whirring display flight is a diagnostic feature in the mountains.

West Mexican Chachalaca

さえずり

Emits a loud, raucous chachalaca chorus; individual calls are slightly lower than Plain Chachalaca. Dawn choruses boom across Mexico's Pacific slope thornscrub and tropical dry forest.

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Geographic Range & Migration

Sickle-winged Guan

Resident in the Andes from Colombia south to Bolivia at 1,500-3,400 m. Found in humid cloud forest.

West Mexican Chachalaca

Endemic to the Pacific coast of Mexico from Sonora south to Jalisco. Found in tropical dry forest and thorn scrub.

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保全状況

Least Concern

Sickle-winged Guan

Least Concern

West Mexican Chachalaca

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How to Tell Them Apart

Sickle-winged Guan

羽毛

Dark chestnut-brown above and on breast; lower belly rufous-chestnut; bare blue facial skin around eye; wings distinctively curved sickle-like; no wattle; tail dark brown.

West Mexican Chachalaca

羽毛

Olive-brown above with greyish head; bare reddish throat skin; underparts pale grey with buff-olive flanks; tail long and dark brown with white tips on outer feathers. Overall paler than eastern …

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About These Birds

Sickle-winged Guan

ホウカンチョウ科の中型鳥類(約700 g)で鎌状の初列風切羽と青い顔面皮膚を持つ。コロンビアからボリビアのアンデス雲霧林・林縁(900〜3,000 m)に生息。樹上生活。果実食性。

West Mexican Chachalaca

A large chachalaca (~760 g) of family Cracidae, with a grey head and brownish body. Endemic to Mexico, inhabiting tropical dry and semi-deciduous forests of the Pacific coast from Jalisco to Oaxaca. Forages in groups for fruits, leaves, and seeds in forest canopy and understory. Least Concern; well adapted to secondary growth and forest edges throughout its restricted Mexican range.

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