Black Guan vs West Mexican Chachalaca

Chamaepetes unicolor 비교 대상 Ortalis poliocephala

Side-by-Side Comparison

속성 Black Guan West Mexican Chachalaca
학명 Chamaepetes unicolor Ortalis poliocephala
Galliformes Galliformes
Cracidae Cracidae
보전 상태 Least Concern Least Concern
체장
날개 폭 58.1 cm (22.9 in) 52.0 cm (20.5 in)
체중 1135.0 g (40.04 oz) 760.0 g (26.81 oz)
식성 Eats fruits, berries, leaves, and small invertebrates in Costa Rican and Panamanian montane forests. Forages … 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

Black Guan only

없음

West Mexican Chachalaca only

없음

Song & Call Comparison

Black Guan

노래

Produces a loud, harsh cackling call and wing-whirring. Calls carry through Costa Rican and Panamanian cloud forest; deep cackling notes are lower-pitched than many Penelope guans.

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

Black Guan

Endemic to the highlands of Costa Rica and western Panama at 1,600-3,000 m. Found in humid montane 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

Black Guan

Least Concern

West Mexican Chachalaca

How to Tell Them Apart

Black Guan

깃털

Uniformly glossy black throughout; bare bright blue facial skin around eye; no wattle or white markings; legs dark grey. One of the most uniformly coloured cracids; blue periorbital skin is …

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

Black Guan

약 1.1 kg의 Cracidae과 중-대형 크라시드로 전체적으로 그을린 검은색에 파란 안면 피부. 코스타리카와 파나마 산지 숲 고유종. 과실, 잎 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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