Rufous-headed Chachalaca vs White-browed Guan

Ortalis erythroptera 比較対象 Penelope jacucaca

Side-by-Side Comparison

属性 Rufous-headed Chachalaca White-browed Guan
学名 Ortalis erythroptera Penelope jacucaca
Galliformes Galliformes
Cracidae Cracidae
保全状況 Vulnerable Vulnerable
体長
翼開長 43.8 cm (17.2 in) 56.1 cm (22.1 in)
体重 632.5 g (22.31 oz) 1438.0 g (50.72 oz)
食性 Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in Pacific slope forests and forest edges of … Eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in Brazilian caatinga dry forests. Vulnerable; forages in canopy …
一腹卵数 3 2-3
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

共通生息地

None

Rufous-headed Chachalaca only

White-browed Guan only

Song & Call Comparison

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.

White-browed Guan

さえずり

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.

Geographic Range & Migration

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

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

White-browed Guan

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

保全状況

Vulnerable

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

Vulnerable

White-browed Guan

How to Tell Them Apart

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.

White-browed Guan

羽毛

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.

About These Birds

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.

White-browed Guan

ブラジル北東部の半乾燥低木林(カアチンガ)に特有のグアンで、乾燥した環境への適応が際立つ。絶滅危惧種に指定されており個体数が少ない。

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