Yellow-knobbed Curassow vs Rufous-headed Chachalaca

Crax daubentoni 比較対象 Ortalis erythroptera

Side-by-Side Comparison

属性 Yellow-knobbed Curassow Rufous-headed Chachalaca
学名 Crax daubentoni Ortalis erythroptera
Galliformes Galliformes
Cracidae Cracidae
保全状況 Near Threatened Vulnerable
体長
翼開長 76.2 cm (30.0 in) 43.8 cm (17.2 in)
体重 2383.3333333333335 g (84.07 oz) 632.5 g (22.31 oz)
食性 Eats large fruits, seeds, and invertebrates on forest floor of Venezuelan and Colombian lowlands. Forages … Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in Pacific slope forests and forest edges of …
一腹卵数 2 3
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

共通生息地

Yellow-knobbed Curassow only

None

Rufous-headed Chachalaca only

Song & Call Comparison

Yellow-knobbed Curassow

さえずり

Emits a deep, resonant booming call; male produces guttural contact clucking. The boom carries through Venezuelan and Colombian dry and gallery forest at dawn.

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.

Geographic Range & Migration

Yellow-knobbed Curassow

Resident in Venezuela and adjacent Colombia. Found in lowland dry and gallery forest in the Llanos and Caribbean coast region.

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

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

保全状況

Near Threatened

Yellow-knobbed Curassow

Vulnerable

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

How to Tell Them Apart

Yellow-knobbed Curassow

羽毛

Male is black with white lower belly; curly black crest; prominent yellow knob at bill base; yellow bare facial skin. Female barred rufous and black with finely curled crest; yellow …

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.

About These Birds

Yellow-knobbed Curassow

イエローノブドクラシャウ(Crax daubentoni)— コロンビアとベネズエラの低地林に生息するホッコ。黄色い嘴コブをもつオスが特徴。

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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