Great Curassow | 台北市立動物園資訊網

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The Great Curassow is a big bird, about the size of a domestic turkey, and is prized by local people for its meat. Overhunting and habitat loss[1] have made this species quite shy. A good look at a male Great Curassow reveals a handsome bird with glossy black plumage and a crest of forward-curling feathers.

This species is the largest and most northerly occurring of the mostly tropical curassow tribe, which includes the critically endangered Blue-billed Curassow[2] of Colombia.

Great Curassows find shelter at several of the bird reserves supported by American Bird Conservancy, including the Río Canandé Reserve managed by our partner Fundación Jocotoco[3] in Ecuador.

Great Curassow occurs as two subspecies; one is endemic to the island of Cozumel and is very rare, numbering only about 300 birds. The more common subspecies is distributed ...