Red-billed Curassow

Taxobox
name = Red-billed Curassow
status = EN
status_system = iucn3.1


image_caption =
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Galliformes
familia = Cracidae
genus = "Crax"
species = "C. blumenbachii"
binomial = "Crax blumenbachii"
binomial_authority = Spix, 1825
synonyms =

The Red-billed Curassow, "Crax blumenbachii", is a species of Cracid, which is characterised by its distinctive red bill. This species is endemic to lowland Atlantic Forest in the states of Espírito Santo, Bahia and Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. Its population is decreasing [ [www.ib.usp.br/~lfsilveira/bulmenbachi.pdf.pdf Plano de Ação para a Conservaçãodo Mutum-do-sudeste Crax blumenbachii.] IBAMA. Accessed 2008-10-02] due to hunting and deforestation, and has possibly been extirpated from Minas Gerais. It is currently being reintroduced to Rio de Janeiro by means of individuals bred in captivity. ["National Geographic Brasil", ISSN 1517-7211, February 2007, pg.22]

References

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=109&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet]