Black Curassow (Crax alector)
About the Black Curassow
The black curassow (Crax alector), also known as the smooth-billed curassow and the crested curassow, is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, and curassows. It is found in humid forests in northern South America in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas including Suriname, and far northern Brazil, and is introduced to Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Lesser Antilles. It is the only Crax curassow where the male and female cannot be separated by plumage, as both are essentially black with a white crissum (the area around the cloaca), and have a yellow (eastern part of its range) or orange-red (western part of its range) cere. There are two recognized subspecies: C. a. alector (Linnaeus, 1766) - eastern Colombia and Venezuela south of the Orinoco River
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Listed as recorded in Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela in the xeno-canto catalogue.
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