Endangered
Wattled Curassow
Crax globulosa
The wattled curassow is a threatened member of the family Cracidae, the curassows, guans, and chachalacas.
Appearance
It is a large curassow lacking the white tail-tips found in many of these birds. The feathers along the crest of its head are curled forwards. Males have black plumage all over except for the white crissum. The irides are dark brown. Legs, feet and bill are blackish.
The wattled curassow is about 82–89 cm (32–35 in) long, and weighs around 2,500 g (88 oz).
Range and habitat
It has been found from the western and southwestern Amazon Basin of Brazil west to the Andes foothills of southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and Peru, and northern Bolivia. Its area of occurrence is essentially delimited by the Caquetá-Japurá, Solimões, Amazon and Madeira Rivers, and the 300 meter contour line towards the Andes. But its precise distribution is very little-known. Most populations were observed by people travelling along the rivers in its range.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
When foraging, it has been observed to rummage around on the ground less often than other Crax curassows, indicating that it may favor different food items (e.g. The diet is largely fruit, but invertebrates and some small vertebrates are opportunistically taken.
Little is known of its breeding habits, but it is known that the nest is built of sticks and leaves and two eggs are usually laid.
In crisis
The wattled curassow is a threatened member of the family Cracidae, the curassows, guans, and chachalacas. The population of this species is declining. It is threatened by loss of habitat, as the rainforest is progressively cleared, and by hunting, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as "endangered".
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix III. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
Wattled 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 Wattled Curassow, Wikidata item Q1043312. 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.
