West Mexican Chachalaca vs Red-faced Guan

Ortalis poliocephala 비교 대상 Penelope dabbenei

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Side-by-Side Comparison

속성 West Mexican Chachalaca Red-faced Guan
학명 Ortalis poliocephala Penelope dabbenei
Galliformes Galliformes
Cracidae Cracidae
보전 상태 Least Concern Least Concern
체장
날개 폭 52.0 cm (20.5 in) 56.7 cm (22.3 in)
체중 760.0 g (26.81 oz) 1230.0 g (43.39 oz)
식성 Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in West Mexican scrub and forest edges. Also … Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in Andean foothills forests of Bolivia and northwestern …
산란 수 2-3 3
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

공유 서식지

West Mexican Chachalaca only

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Red-faced 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.

Red-faced Guan

노래

Produces a loud, resonant honking cackle and wing-whirring display. Calls carry through Bolivian and Argentinian Yungas cloud forest; wing-whirring is a diagnostic display.

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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.

Red-faced Guan

Resident in the foothills and mountains of northwestern Argentina and adjacent Bolivia at 500-1,800 m. Found in humid Yungas forest.

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보전 상태

Least Concern

West Mexican Chachalaca

Least Concern

Red-faced 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 …

Red-faced Guan

깃털

Dark brownish-olive; extensive bare bright red facial skin from lores to ear-coverts (larger than other guans); throat red-wattled; breast finely streaked white; lower belly rufous; tail dark.

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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.

Red-faced Guan

붉은목갈링은 볼리비아에서 아르헨티나 북부에 걸쳐 산기슭 낙엽수림과 관목 숲에 서식하는 대형 새입니다. 취약종이며 안데스 산록 지역에서 주로 발견됩니다.

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