West Mexican Chachalaca vs Cauca Guan

Ortalis poliocephala 비교 대상 Penelope perspicax

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Side-by-Side Comparison

속성 West Mexican Chachalaca Cauca Guan
학명 Ortalis poliocephala Penelope perspicax
Galliformes Galliformes
Cracidae Cracidae
보전 상태 Least Concern Vulnerable
체장
날개 폭 52.0 cm (20.5 in) 65.0 cm (25.6 in)
체중 760.0 g (26.81 oz) 1197.0 g (42.22 oz)
식성 Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in West Mexican scrub and forest edges. Also … Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, and leaves in Colombian Cauca Valley forests. Critically endangered with very …
산란 수 2-3 2
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

공유 서식지

West Mexican Chachalaca only

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Cauca 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.

Cauca Guan

노래

Produces a loud, honking cackle and powerful wing-whirring display. Critically endangered; calls carry across Colombian Cauca Valley forest fragments; wing-whirr is diagnostic.

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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.

Cauca Guan

Endemic to the Cauca Valley of Colombia. Found in humid forest remnants at 1,000-2,000 m. Critically endangered.

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보전 상태

Least Concern

West Mexican Chachalaca

Vulnerable

Cauca 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 …

Cauca Guan

깃털

Dark brownish-black above; neck and breast streaked white; bare red throat skin; lower underparts deep rufous-chestnut; back faintly glossed; tail dark brown. White streaking is bolder than in most Penelope …

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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.

Cauca Guan

카우카갈링은 콜롬비아 카우카 계곡 안데스 서사면의 구름 숲에 서식하는 대형 새입니다. 매우 제한된 분포로 위기종으로 분류됩니다.

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