West Mexican Chachalaca vs Bearded Guan

Ortalis poliocephala 비교 대상 Penelope barbata

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Side-by-Side Comparison

속성 West Mexican Chachalaca Bearded Guan
학명 Ortalis poliocephala Penelope barbata
Galliformes Galliformes
Cracidae Cracidae
보전 상태 Least Concern Near Threatened
체장
날개 폭 52.0 cm (20.5 in) 48.4 cm (19.1 in)
체중 760.0 g (26.81 oz) 822.8 g (29.02 oz)
식성 Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in West Mexican scrub and forest edges. Also … Eats fruits, berries, seeds, leaves, and flowers in Andean cloud forests of Ecuador and Peru. …
산란 수 2-3 2
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

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West Mexican Chachalaca only

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Bearded Guan only

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Song & Call Comparison

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.

Bearded Guan

노래

Emits a loud, deep honking cackle and produces wing-whirring in display. Calls are resonant; the wing-whirr display is loud and penetrating in Ecuadorian and Peruvian cloud forest.

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Geographic Range & Migration

West Mexican Chachalaca

Endemic to the Pacific coast of Mexico from Sonora south to Jalisco. Found in tropical dry forest and thorn scrub.

Bearded Guan

Resident in the Andes of southern Ecuador and northern Peru at 1,800-3,400 m. Found in humid montane forest.

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보전 상태

Least Concern

West Mexican Chachalaca

Near Threatened

Bearded Guan

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How to Tell Them Apart

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 …

Bearded Guan

깃털

Dark olive-brown above; throat with bare red skin and feathered lower edge resembling beard; neck and breast finely streaked white on dark brown; lower belly rufous-chestnut; tail dark brown.

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About These Birds

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.

Bearded Guan

턱수염갈링은 에콰도르와 페루의 안데스 서사면 구름 숲에 서식하는 대형 새입니다. 어두운 갈색 깃털과 희고 촘촘한 점무늬가 있으며, 취약종으로 분류됩니다.

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