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Wattled Curassow
Crax globulosa Spix, 1825
Cracidae — Chachalacas, Curassows, Guans
Wattled Curassow, Crax globulosa, is a bird of south-western Amazonia in South America, belonging to the Cracidae family in the order Galliformes. It was described by Spix in 1825. It lives in remote rainforest, including gallery forest and seasonally flooded forest. The species is marked by the male’s black plumage, white crissum, curly head feathers, and red bill ornaments and wattles. Females and young are similar, but without the bill ornamentation and with a reddish-buff crissum.
- Order
- Galliformes
- Family
- Cracidae — Chachalacas, Curassows, Guans
- Breeding range
- South America: w Amazonia
