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Mutum/Bare-Faced Curassow [Female and Male]

Crax fasciolata fasciolata

Photo by LeonardoMB
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Field Notes

Description:

They live in pairs or in small family groups. Although it spent most of his time on the ground, perching sleeping. It alway seek the same perch to sleep, but in moonlit nights is very restless, abandoning the traditional point and looking for another location nearby. Betrays his nervousness by opening and closing the tail. Other tics are sudden movements shaking his head sideways and the bristle plume.
The specimen all black is the male, and, the specimen with white feathers is the female.

Habitat:

Central and south-west Brazil, north-east Brazil, east Bolivia, Paraguay and north Argentina.
This species inhabits humid, semi-deciduous and gallery forests, and is often recorded in woodland edges.

Notes:

This specimen is of the zoo in my city, "Ilha de São Pedro" ("St. Peter Island")

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