West Mexican Chachalaca vs Horned Curassow

Ortalis poliocephala 比較対象 Pauxi unicornis

Side-by-Side Comparison

属性 West Mexican Chachalaca Horned Curassow
学名 Ortalis poliocephala Pauxi unicornis
Galliformes Galliformes
Cracidae Cracidae
保全状況 Least Concern Critically Endangered
体長
翼開長 52.0 cm (20.5 in) 81.2 cm (32.0 in)
体重 760.0 g (26.81 oz) 3725.0 g (131.40 oz)
食性 Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in West Mexican scrub and forest edges. Also … Frugivorous; eats large seeds, fruits, and invertebrates on the floor of Bolivian and Peruvian montane …
一腹卵数 2-3 1
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

共通生息地

West Mexican Chachalaca only

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Horned Curassow only

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Song & Call Comparison

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.

Horned Curassow

さえずり

Emits a deep, resonant booming call. The powerful, far-carrying boom is infrequently recorded; Critically Endangered; calls in Bolivian cloud forest are among the rarest cracid sounds.

Geographic Range & Migration

West Mexican Chachalaca

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

Horned Curassow

Endemic to the east Andean slopes of Bolivia in Santa Cruz and Cochabamba at 1,000-2,000 m. Found in humid montane forest. Endangered.

保全状況

Least Concern

West Mexican Chachalaca

Critically Endangered

Horned Curassow

How to Tell Them Apart

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 …

Horned Curassow

羽毛

Glossy black; white lower belly and undertail; a single erect blue-grey conical horn on forehead (smaller than Helmeted Curassow casque); red bill; legs red. Very rare; horn distinguishes from all …

About These Birds

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.

Horned Curassow

ボリビアとペルーのアンデス東斜面に生息するサケズドリで、単角のような円筒形の角盾が特徴的。湿潤な山岳林に生息し、個体数が少ない。

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