Great Curassow

• The females have three completely different colour morphs living side by side in the same population: barred, rufous and dark, to the point that they were once described as separate species.
• The male gives a deep, ventriloquial booming produced by an elongated windpipe, so low in frequency that it is almost impossible to tell where it is coming from.
• It is one of the first species to vanish from a hunted forest: its size, its slowness and its habit of perching in the open make it an easy target.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Primary lowland rainforest of Central America and north-western South America

Sexual maturity

3 years

Gestation / incubation

31 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

2 eggs

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crax_rubra

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.