Sickle-winged Guan vs West Mexican Chachalaca

Chamaepetes goudotii 비교 대상 Ortalis poliocephala

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

Habitat Comparison

공유 서식지

Sickle-winged Guan only

없음

West Mexican Chachalaca only

없음

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.

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.

보전 상태

Least Concern

Sickle-winged Guan

Least Concern

West Mexican Chachalaca

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 …

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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