Bare-faced Curassow - BirdForum Opus

Photo by Sylvester_b
Brazil, September 2004

Crax fasciolata

Identification

Male 77–85 cm (30¼-33½ in)

• Overall black plumage
• White belly
• Yellow bill and cere
  

Female 75 cm (29½ in)

• Rufous chest and belly
• Extensive barring on upperparts
• Bright red legs

Distribution

South America: found in eastern Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, north-eastern Argentina

Female, subspecies fasciolata
Photo by Stanley Jones
Mato Grosso, Brazil, August 2015

Taxonomy

Subspecies

There are 3 subspecies^[1]:

• C. f. pinima:

• North-eastern Brazil

• C. f. fasciolata:

• Lowlands of Brazil to Paraguay and north-eastern Argentina

• C. f. grayi:

• Eastern Bolivia

A fourth subspecies, xavieri, is not recognised by all authorities and is usually considered invalid^[2]

Habitat

Humid sem-deciduous and gallery forests and at the edges of woodland, scrub and riversides. Observed at 128 - 800m.

Behaviour

At night they often roost in trees.

Diet

The diet includes seeds, flowers, fallen fruit and invertebrates.

References

1. Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, D. Roberson, T. A. Fredericks, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2015. The eBird/Clements checklist of birds of the world: v2015, with updates to August 2015. Downloaded from http://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
2. Avibase
3. Arthur Grosset
4. Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive (retrieved October 2015)

• List of references

Recommended Citation

• BirdForum Opus contributors. (2024) Bare-faced Curassow. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 12 May 2024 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Bare-faced_Curassow

External Links

• Arthur Grosset's Birds

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