Endangered
Red-knobbed Curassow
Crax blumenbachii
The red-billed curassow or red-knobbed curassow is an endangered species of cracid that is endemic to lowland Atlantic Forest in the states of Espírito Santo, Bahia and Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil.
Appearance
The male has pure black upper parts with a large black crest, and white underparts. There are bright red wattles and knobs at the base of the bill. The female lacks the wattles and has black upper parts, a black and white barred crest, reddish-brown wings barred and mottled with black, and reddish-brown or ochre underparts.
The red-billed curassow is a large bird reaching a length of 82 to 92 centimetres (32 to 36 in).
Range and habitat
The red-billed curassow or red-knobbed curassow is an endangered species of cracid that is endemic to lowland Atlantic Forest in the states of Espírito Santo, Bahia and Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil. Its population is decreasing due to hunting and deforestation, and it has possibly been extirpated from Minas Gerais.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
In crisis
It is currently being reintroduced to Rio de Janeiro by means of individuals bred in captivity.
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Red-knobbed Curassow is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Red-knobbed Curassow, Wikidata item Q685738. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
