West Mexican Chachalaca vs Rusty-margined Guan

Ortalis poliocephala 비교 대상 Penelope superciliaris

Side-by-Side Comparison

속성 West Mexican Chachalaca Rusty-margined Guan
학명 Ortalis poliocephala Penelope superciliaris
Galliformes Galliformes
Cracidae Cracidae
보전 상태 Least Concern Near Threatened
체장
날개 폭 52.0 cm (20.5 in) 49.7 cm (19.6 in)
체중 760.0 g (26.81 oz) 950.0 g (33.51 oz)
식성 Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in West Mexican scrub and forest edges. Also … Eats fruits, berries, seeds, leaves, and small invertebrates in South American Atlantic and Cerrado forest …
산란 수 2-3 3
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

공유 서식지

West Mexican Chachalaca only

없음

Rusty-margined 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.

Rusty-margined Guan

노래

Emits a loud, resonant honking cackle and loud wing-whirring. Calls are similar to Spix's Guan; the wing-whirr display is standard for the genus in South American forest.

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.

Rusty-margined Guan

Resident in Brazil from Bahia south to Rio Grande do Sul and in adjacent Paraguay and Argentina. Found in Atlantic Forest and gallery woodland.

보전 상태

Least Concern

West Mexican Chachalaca

Near Threatened

Rusty-margined 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 …

Rusty-margined Guan

깃털

Dark brown above; prominent pale buff-white supercilium; bare red throat; breast streaked white; wing coverts and secondaries edged rusty-rufous; lower belly rufous-chestnut; 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.

Rusty-margined Guan

갈색눈썹갈링은 브라질 전역과 볼리비아 동부의 다양한 숲 유형에 서식하는 대형 새입니다. 갈색 깃털에 흰 눈썹선이 뚜렷하며, 비교적 흔한 종입니다.

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