Blue-billed Curassow

Taxobox
name = Blue-billed Curassow

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image_caption = male
image_width = 240px
status = CR | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Galliformes
familia = Cracidae
genus = "Crax"
species = "C. alberti"
binomial = "Crax alberti"
binomial_authority = Fraser, 1852
synonyms =

The Blue-billed Curassow ("Crax alberti") is a species of bird in the Cracidae family, the chachalacas, guans, curassows, etc.It is found only in Colombia; areas of its range in the south and east are bordered by the Magdalena River.Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests.It is threatened by habitat loss.

References

* BirdLife International 2004. [http://www.iucnredlist.org/search/details.php/5503/all Crax alberti] . [http://www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. ] Downloaded on 10 July 2007.

External links

* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/species/index.html?action=SpcHTMDetails.asp&sid=104&m=0 BirdLife Species Factsheet.]
* [http://www.bird-stamps.org/cspecies/3404500.htm "Blue-knobbed Curassow"-Stamps] (for Colombia) with RangeMap
* [http://vireo.acnatsci.org/search.html?Form=Search&SEARCHBY=Common&KEYWORDS=blue-billed+curassow&showwhat=images&AGE=All&SEX=All&ACT=All&Search=Search&VIEW=All&ORIENTATION=All&RESULTS=24 Blue-billed Curassow photo gallery] VIREO
* [http://www.oiseaux.net/birds/blue-knobbed.curassow.html "Blue-knobbed Curassow" species write-up] ; [http://www.oiseaux.net/photos/proaves.fundacion/hocco.d.albert.1.html#fiche Photo-High Res] oiseaux