Wattled Curassow vs West Mexican Chachalaca
Crax globulosa 비교 대상 Ortalis poliocephala
Side-by-Side Comparison
| 속성 | Wattled Curassow | West Mexican Chachalaca |
|---|---|---|
| 학명 | Crax globulosa | Ortalis poliocephala |
| 목 | Galliformes | Galliformes |
| 과 | Cracidae | Cracidae |
| 보전 상태 | Endangered | Least Concern |
| 체장 | — | — |
| 날개 폭 | 69.9 cm (27.5 in) | 52.0 cm (20.5 in) |
| 체중 | 2500.0 g (88.18 oz) | 760.0 g (26.81 oz) |
| 식성 | Eats large fruits, seeds, and invertebrates on floors of Amazonian várzea forests. Vulnerable; forages along … | Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in West Mexican scrub and forest edges. Also … |
| 산란 수 | 2 | 2-3 |
| Population Trend | — | — |
Habitat Comparison
Song & Call Comparison
Wattled Curassow
Emits a deep, resonant booming call and guttural contact clucking. Endangered; the deep boom carries through Amazonian flooded forest (várzea); increasingly rarely heard.
West Mexican Chachalaca
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
Wattled Curassow
Resident in the upper Amazon Basin from Colombia and Peru south to Bolivia and Brazil. Found in lowland and flooded várzea 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
Wattled Curassow
West Mexican Chachalaca
How to Tell Them Apart
Wattled Curassow
Male glossy black with white belly; curly black crest; dark red knob and wattle at bill base; no yellow. Female black with pale barring; reddish bill ornaments present but smaller. …
West Mexican Chachalaca
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
Wattled Curassow
Cracidae과의 대형 호아친(약 2.5kg)으로 수컷은 부리 기부에 독특한 구형 혹이 있는 검은색. 아마존 분지 삼림에 서식. 과식성; 서식지 손실로 취약종.
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.