About the Bare-faced Curassow
The bare-faced curassow is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, curassows, etc. It is found in 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 forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
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The bare-faced curassow is a large bird reaching a length of 82 to 92 centimetres (32 to 36 in). The sexes differ in appearance. The male has black upper parts faintly glossed with greenish-olive, with an unfeathered face with yellowish bare skin, a small black crest, and white underparts. The female, on the other hand, has a black head, throat, neck and upper mantle, and a black and white barred crest. The remainder of the upper parts are greenish-black barred with white or ochre.
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Where it lives
When to see it
Peak activity in August · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Black CurassowCrax alectorThe black curassow is a large bird reaching about 900 millimetres (35 in) in length.
Blue-billed CurassowCrax albertiThe blue-billed curassow is 82.5 to 92.5 cm (2.7 to 3.0 ft) long and weighs 3.2 to 3.6 kg (7.1 to 7.9 lb).
Yellow-knobbed CurassowCrax daubentoniThe yellow-knobbed curassow is 84 to 92.5 cm (2.8 to 3.0 ft) long.
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