Sickle-winged Guan vs West Mexican Chachalaca

Chamaepetes goudotii 비교 대상 Ortalis poliocephala

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Side-by-Side Comparison

속성 Sickle-winged Guan West Mexican Chachalaca
학명 Chamaepetes goudotii Ortalis poliocephala
Galliformes Galliformes
Cracidae Cracidae
보전 상태 Least Concern Least Concern
체장
날개 폭 50.7 cm (20.0 in) 52.0 cm (20.5 in)
체중 702.0 g (24.76 oz) 760.0 g (26.81 oz)
식성 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 …
산란 수 2-3 2-3
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

공유 서식지

Sickle-winged Guan only

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West Mexican Chachalaca only

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Song & Call Comparison

Sickle-winged Guan

노래

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

노래

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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보전 상태

Least Concern

Sickle-winged Guan

Least Concern

West Mexican Chachalaca

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How to Tell Them Apart

Sickle-winged Guan

깃털

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

깃털

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

약 700 g의 Cracidae과 중형 크라시드로 낫 모양 바깥 날개 깃털을 가진다. 안데스 구름 숲 서식. 과실, 잎, 새순 섭취.

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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