curassow

There is also room for bird and insect watching, where the black curassow can be seen.

Other species, such as the endangered curassow have also been illegally hunted.

The latter would in time evolve into the blue-billed curassow.

It is often decorated as well with a tuft of curassow feathers.

Both the military macaw and the great curassow have a conservation status of vulnerable.

The habitat preference of the wattled curassow is not well studied either.

A captive stock exists and by curassow standards is even reasonably plentiful.

The great curassow spends much of its time on the ground, but nests and roosts in trees.

In 1969 another two birds, a male and female were discovered which resembled horned curassow.

For example, the male great curassow has a yellow cere, which the female (and young males) lack.

The distinct coloration separates M.mitu as its own species apart from other curassow.

Two of the most interesting are arguably the southern helmeted curassow and the military macaw.

Consensus for the common name is Sira curassow.

The horned curassow is among the largest cracid species.

The great curassow is the most northernly Crax species.

For some time, it also contained the horned curassow taxa as subspecies.

The black curassow is a largely ground-dwelling bird.

Although the black curassow is fairly common, populations have been declining because of habitat loss, trapping and hunting.

The Alagoas curassow became extinct in the wild due to deforestation and hunting.

The Alagoas curassow is well known to subsist on a diet of fruits and nuts.

The horned curassow is threatened by habitat loss.

In captivity, it sometimes hybridises with the blue-billed curassow.

Its scientific name Crax globulosa can be translated as "knobbed curassow".

One threatened bird species in the park if the great curassow (Crax rubra) .

The wattled curassow is the most ancient lineage of the southern Crax curassows.