Black Guan vs Rufous-bellied Chachalaca

Chamaepetes unicolor 비교 대상 Ortalis wagleri

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Side-by-Side Comparison

속성 Black Guan Rufous-bellied Chachalaca
학명 Chamaepetes unicolor Ortalis wagleri
Galliformes Galliformes
Cracidae Cracidae
보전 상태 Least Concern Least Concern
체장
날개 폭 58.1 cm (22.9 in) 48.3 cm (19.0 in)
체중 1135.0 g (40.04 oz) 834.0 g (29.42 oz)
식성 Eats fruits, berries, leaves, and small invertebrates in Costa Rican and Panamanian montane forests. Forages … Feeds on fruits, berries, seeds, leaves, and small invertebrates in Mexican thorn scrub and deciduous …
산란 수 2-3 3
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

공유 서식지

Black Guan only

없음

Rufous-bellied Chachalaca only

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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.

Rufous-bellied Chachalaca

노래

Produces a loud, deep raucous chorus; the lowest-pitched Ortalis chachalaca call. The deep, resonant cha-cha-LAC booms across Mexican Pacific slope deciduous forest at dawn.

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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.

Rufous-bellied Chachalaca

Endemic to the Pacific coast of western Mexico from Sinaloa to Colima. Found in tropical dry forest and thorn scrub.

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보전 상태

Least Concern

Black Guan

Least Concern

Rufous-bellied Chachalaca

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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 …

Rufous-bellied Chachalaca

깃털

Olive-brown above; head grey with bare reddish throat; underparts strongly washed rufous-buff becoming deep rufous on belly and flanks; graduated tail dark brown with pale-tipped outer feathers.

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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.

Rufous-bellied Chachalaca

A larger chachalaca (~834 g) of family Cracidae, with a rufous wash on the underparts. Endemic to the Pacific slope of northwestern Mexico, from Sonora to Jalisco. Inhabits tropical dry forest, thorn scrub, and deciduous woodland. Forages in groups on fruits, seeds, and insects. Least Concern; range restricted to the Mexican Pacific coast but populations remain stable.

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