Blue-billed Curassow vs Rufous-headed Chachalaca

Crax alberti 比較対象 Ortalis erythroptera

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Side-by-Side Comparison

属性 Blue-billed Curassow Rufous-headed Chachalaca
学名 Crax alberti Ortalis erythroptera
Galliformes Galliformes
Cracidae Cracidae
保全状況 Critically Endangered Vulnerable
体長
翼開長 80.2 cm (31.6 in) 43.8 cm (17.2 in)
体重 2650.0 g (93.48 oz) 632.5 g (22.31 oz)
食性 Frugivorous; eats large fruits, seeds, and invertebrates on ground of Colombian lowland forests. Critically endangered. Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in Pacific slope forests and forest edges of …
一腹卵数 2 3
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

共通生息地

Blue-billed Curassow only

None

Rufous-headed Chachalaca only

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Song & Call Comparison

Blue-billed Curassow

さえずり

Produces a deep, resonant booming call; male gives guttural contact calls. Critically Endangered; voice rarely heard in the wild in remnant Colombian forest.

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

さえずり

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

Blue-billed Curassow

Endemic to northwestern Colombia in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and nearby ranges. Found in humid forest at 200-1,000 m. 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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保全状況

Critically Endangered

Blue-billed Curassow

Vulnerable

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

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How to Tell Them Apart

Blue-billed Curassow

羽毛

Male is glossy black with white belly and curly black crest; distinctive bright blue bill with no yellow knob. Female is barred black-and-chestnut with curly crest; blue bill separates it …

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

羽毛

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

Blue-billed Curassow

ブルービルドクラシャウ(Crax alberti)— コロンビア北部の低地雨林に固有のホッコ類。青い嘴基部の大きなコブが特徴。絶滅危惧種。

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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