great curassow

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

Only the Great Curassow ranges north through Central America as far as Mexico.

The Great Curassow is the most northernly Crax species.

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

Great curassow (Crax rubra)

These include one of the two large game species (the great curassow), and the Keel-billed Motmot (Electron carinatum).

A monogamous species, the Great Curassow is distributed in rainforest from eastern Mexico throughout Central America, to western Colombia and northwest Ecuador.

The male Great Curassow may build the nest and attract a female's attention to it, though in other cases both members of a pair will build the nest structure.

There are estimated to be more than 600 birds species, including Great Curassow, Crested Guan and Ornate Hawk-Eagle.

The region is rich with birds, including the king vulture, harpy eagle, Great Curassow, crested guan, scarlet macaw, green macaw and military macaw.

BirdLife International (2008): Great Curassow (Crax rubra): uplist to Vulnerable?

Bladen has two large resident game bird species, the great curassow (Crax rubra) and crested guan (Penelope purpurascens).

Four other species of curassow (the Northern Helmeted, the Southern Helmeted, the Black and the Crested) are all around the same average length as the Great Curassow.

Due to ongoing habitat loss and overhunting in some areas, the Great Curassow is evaluated as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

Some wildlife, like the great curassow, a large bird, and the blue-crowned motmot, the bright-colored national bird of El Salvador, are commonly sighted; others, like the puma, ocelot and collared anteater, are rarely seen and so are not considered dangerous to hikers.

Birds ad the zoo include scarlet macaw, jabiru, great egret, wood stork, brown pelican, ornate hawk-eagle, harpy eagle, common black hawk, king vulture, spectacled owl, barn owl, mottled owl, yellow-headed Amazon, white-fronted Amazon, collared aracari, and great curassow.