- Bare-faced Curassow
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Bare-faced Curassow Female at Berlin Zoological Garden, Germany 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, 1825The 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.
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Taxonomy
Subspecies
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 2004. Crax fasciolata. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.
External links
- 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"
Categories:- IUCN Red List least concern species
- Crax
- Birds of the Cerrado
- Birds of the Pantanal
- Birds of the Amazon Basin
- Birds of Brazil
- Birds of Bolivia
- Birds of Paraguay
- Birds of Argentina
- Galliformes stubs
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