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Crax fasciolata

Bare-faced Curassow

  • Order: Galliformes
  • Family: Cracidae
  • Polytypic 3 Subspecies

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Crax fasciolata

Transpantaneira, Pousada Rio Claro, Mato Grosso, Brazil; 13 September 2006 © Ric Fontijn

The Bare-faced Curassow is distributed from eastern Amazonia south through central Brazil into Paraguay and northern Argentina. It forages on the ground in forest and forest edge, where it can be fairly common. It is easiest to detect in early morning and late evening, when individuals or pairs wander into clearings or deliver their deep, booming songs. Like other Crax curassows, this species is sexually dimorphic: the male is mostly black with a white vent, while the female is barred black above with orange to rufous underparts. The Bare-faced Curassow is the only curassow with extensive bare black skin on the face.

 
 

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Recommended Citation

. 2010. Bare-faced Curassow (Crax fasciolata), Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; retrieved from Neotropical Birds Online: http://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/portal/species/overview?p_p_spp=82471

This map is based on the maps available from the NatureServe InfoNatura website. The data for these maps are provided by NatureServe in collaboration with Robert Ridgely, James Zook, The Nature Conservancy - Migratory Bird Program, Conservation International - CABS, World Wildlife Fund - US, and Environment Canada - WILDSPACE.

  • Migration/Movement:Resident (nonmigratory)
  • Primary Habitat:Tropical lowland evergreen forest
  • Foraging Strata:Terrestrial
  • Foraging Behavior:Undescribed
  • Diet:Fruit
  • Sociality:Solitary/Pairs
  • Mating System:Unknown
  • Nest Form:Platform
  • Clutch: 2 - 2
  • IUCN Status:Least Concern