Blue-billed Curassow vs Rufous-headed Chachalaca

Crax alberti comparado com Ortalis erythroptera

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Atributo Blue-billed Curassow Rufous-headed Chachalaca
Nome científico Crax alberti Ortalis erythroptera
Ordem Galliformes Galliformes
Família Cracidae Cracidae
Estado de conservação Critically Endangered Vulnerable
Comprimento
Envergadura 80,2 cm (31.6 in) 43,8 cm (17.2 in)
Peso 2650,0 g (93.48 oz) 632,5 g (22.31 oz)
Dieta Frugivorous; eats large fruits, seeds, and invertebrates on ground of Colombian lowland forests. Critically endangered. Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in Pacific slope forests and forest edges of …
Tamanho da postura 2 3
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

Habitats partilhados

Blue-billed Curassow only

Nenhum

Rufous-headed Chachalaca only

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Song & Call Comparison

Blue-billed Curassow

Canto

Produces a deep, resonant booming call; male gives guttural contact calls. Critically Endangered; voice rarely heard in the wild in remnant Colombian forest.

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

Canto

Emits a loud, raucous chachalaca chorus; individual calls are slightly higher than Rufous-vented. Dawn choruses carry across Ecuadorian and Peruvian coastal dry forest.

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Geographic Range & Migration

Blue-billed Curassow

Endemic to northwestern Colombia in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and nearby ranges. Found in humid forest at 200-1,000 m. Critically endangered.

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

Resident in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Found in tropical deciduous forest and scrub in the Tumbes-Chocó-Magdalena region.

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Estado de conservação

Critically Endangered

Blue-billed Curassow

Vulnerable

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

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How to Tell Them Apart

Blue-billed Curassow

Plumagem

Male is glossy black with white belly and curly black crest; distinctive bright blue bill with no yellow knob. Female is barred black-and-chestnut with curly crest; blue bill separates it …

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

Plumagem

Brownish-olive body; head and upper neck warm rufous-cinnamon, distinctly contrasting with greyish-brown back; bare reddish throat wattle; underparts pale buff; tail dark with pale outer tips.

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About These Birds

Blue-billed Curassow

Mutum-de-Albert (Crax alberti) — Mutum criticamente ameaçado endémico das florestas tropicais do noroeste da Colômbia. Macho negro com carúncula basal no bico; fêmea acastanhada barrada. Habita florestas densas de baixada. A intensa desflorestação e caça fez dele um dos cracídeos mais ameaçados do mundo, com menos de 2500 indivíduos.

Rufous-headed Chachalaca

A medium-sized cracid (~630 g) of family Cracidae, with a striking rufous head. Inhabits humid and deciduous forests, forest edges, and scrub in western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. Feeds on fruits and leaves in the forest understory and canopy. Vulnerable due to extensive deforestation in the Tumbesian region, one of the world's most threatened biodiversity hotspots.

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