West Mexican Chachalaca vs Chestnut-bellied Guan

Ortalis poliocephala 비교 대상 Penelope ochrogaster

Side-by-Side Comparison

속성 West Mexican Chachalaca Chestnut-bellied Guan
학명 Ortalis poliocephala Penelope ochrogaster
Galliformes Galliformes
Cracidae Cracidae
보전 상태 Least Concern Vulnerable
체장
날개 폭 52.0 cm (20.5 in) 64.1 cm (25.2 in)
체중 760.0 g (26.81 oz) 1214.5 g (42.84 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 Brazilian Cerrado and gallery forests. Vulnerable species.
산란 수 2-3 2
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

공유 서식지

West Mexican Chachalaca only

없음

Chestnut-bellied Guan only

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.

Chestnut-bellied Guan

노래

Produces a loud, resonant honking cackle and wing-whirring display flights. Calls carry through Brazilian interior forest; classified Vulnerable due to habitat loss.

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.

Chestnut-bellied Guan

Endemic to central Brazil in the cerrado of Goiás and Mato Grosso. Found in dry forest and cerrado woodland near gallery forest.

보전 상태

Least Concern

West Mexican Chachalaca

Vulnerable

Chestnut-bellied Guan

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 …

Chestnut-bellied Guan

깃털

Dark brownish-black above; bare red throat wattle; neck and breast streaked white on dark; belly and flanks rich uniform chestnut-orange, more saturated than most Penelope guans; tail dark.

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.

Chestnut-bellied Guan

황갈색배갈링은 브라질 중서부 마투그로수와 미나스제라이스 주의 세라도와 전환림에 서식하는 대형 새입니다. 황갈색 배가 특징이며, 취약종으로 분류됩니다.

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