Bare-faced curassow
| Bare-faced curassow | |
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| Female at Berlin Zoological Garden, Germany | |
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| Male at Parque das Aves, Brazil | |
| Conservation status | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Galliformes |
| Family: | Cracidae |
| Genus: | Crax |
| Species: | C. fasciolata |
| Binomial name | |
| Crax fasciolata Spix, 1825 | |
The bare-faced curassow (Crax fasciolata) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family, the chachalacas, guans, curassows, etc. It is found in eastern-central and southern Brazil, Paraguay, and eastern Bolivia, and extreme northeast Argentina, in the cerrado, pantanal, and the southeastern region of the Amazon Basin. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.
Taxonomy
There are three recognized subspecies:
- C. f. fasciolata (Spix, 1825) - fasciated curassow - lowlands of Brazil to Paraguay and northeast Argentina
- C. f. grayi (Ogilvie-Grant, 1893) - eastern Bolivia
- C. f. pinima (Pelzeln, 1870) - Natterer's curassow - northeastern Brazil
References
- ↑ BirdLife International (2012). "Crax fasciolata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2013.2. International Union for Conservation of Nature. Retrieved 26 November 2013.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Crax fasciolata. |
- Bare-faced Curassow videos on the Internet Bird Collection
- Stamps (for Paraguay) with RangeMap
- Bare-faced Curassow photo gallery VIREO Photo-High Res--(Close-up)
- Photo-High Res; Article chandra.as.utexas.edu–"Birds of Brazil"
