#crax rubra

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Greater Curassow

Female-Type Crax rubra Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica

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BOTD: Great Curassow

Photo: Croftylock

"The Great Curassow is a big bird, about the size of a domestic turkey, and is prized by local people for its meat. Overhunting and habitat loss have made this species quite shy. A good look at a male Great Curassow reveals a handsome bird with glossy black plumage and a crest of forward-curling feathers. This species is the largest and most northerly occurring of the mostly tropical curassow tribe."

- American Bird Conservancy

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Great Curassow

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Great Curassow (Crax rubra)

© Joe Tuvell

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Great Curassow - Crax rubra 大鳳冠雉

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GREAT CURASSOW (male) Crax rubra

©Laura Quick

The Great Curassow is a large, pheasant-like bird from the Neotropical rainforests, its range extending from eastern Mexico, through Central America to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. This photo was taken in the wild at the La Selva Biological Research Station in Costa Rica. Male birds are black with curly crests and yellow beaks; females come in three colour morphs, barred, rufous and black. These birds form small groups, foraging mainly on the ground for fruits and arthropods, and the occasional small vertebrate, but they roost and nest in trees. This species is monogamous, the male usually building the rather small nest of leaves in which two eggs are laid. This species is threatened by loss of habitat and hunting, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as "vulnerable". Source

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Great Curassow (Crax rubra)

© Isaac Sanchez

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Great Curassow (Crax rubra)

© D Lawton