Wattled Curassow vs West Mexican Chachalaca

Crax globulosa ile kıyaslandığında Ortalis poliocephala

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Özellik Wattled Curassow West Mexican Chachalaca
Bilimsel Ad Crax globulosa Ortalis poliocephala
Takım Galliformes Galliformes
Familya Cracidae Cracidae
Koruma Durumu Endangered Least Concern
Uzunluk
Kanat Açıklığı 69,9 cm (27.5 in) 52,0 cm (20.5 in)
Ağırlık 2500,0 g (88.18 oz) 760,0 g (26.81 oz)
Beslenme Eats large fruits, seeds, and invertebrates on floors of Amazonian várzea forests. Vulnerable; forages along … Frugivorous; eats fruits, berries, seeds, and leaves in West Mexican scrub and forest edges. Also …
Kuluçka Büyüklüğü 2 2-3
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

Ortak Yaşam Alanları

Wattled Curassow only

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Song & Call Comparison

Wattled Curassow

Şarkı

Emits a deep, resonant booming call and guttural contact clucking. Endangered; the deep boom carries through Amazonian flooded forest (várzea); increasingly rarely heard.

West Mexican Chachalaca

Şarkı

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.

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Geographic Range & Migration

Wattled Curassow

Resident in the upper Amazon Basin from Colombia and Peru south to Bolivia and Brazil. Found in lowland and flooded várzea forest.

West Mexican Chachalaca

Endemic to the Pacific coast of Mexico from Sonora south to Jalisco. Found in tropical dry forest and thorn scrub.

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Koruma Durumu

Endangered

Wattled Curassow

Least Concern

West Mexican Chachalaca

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How to Tell Them Apart

Wattled Curassow

Tuy

Male glossy black with white belly; curly black crest; dark red knob and wattle at bill base; no yellow. Female black with pale barring; reddish bill ornaments present but smaller. …

West Mexican Chachalaca

Tuy

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 …

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About These Birds

Wattled Curassow

A large cracid (~2.5 kg) of family Cracidae, males black with a distinctive globular red wattle and curly crest. Inhabits seasonally flooded várzea and igapó forests along major Amazon and Orinoco river systems. Forages for fruits and seeds near water. Endangered; highly dependent on flooded forest habitats that are increasingly affected by dam construction and deforestation.

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.

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