Category
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Great Curassow
species of bird
Crax
Crax is a genus of curassows in the order Galliformes, a clade of large, heavy-bodied, ground-feeding birds. They are known from tropical South America with one species, the great curassow, ranging northwards through Central America as far as Mexico. The curassows in this genus are noted for their sexual dimorphism; males are more boldly coloured than females and have facial ornamentation such as knobs and wattles. They are also characterised by curly crests and contrastingly-coloured crissa (the area around the cloaca). Crax curassows probably originated as a distinct lineage during the Late

Blue-billed Curassow
species of bird

Bare-faced Curassow
species of bird

Red-knobbed Curassow
species of bird

Black Curassow
species of bird

Yellow-knobbed Curassow
species of bird

Wattled Curassow
species of bird
Crax fasciolata pinima
subspecies of bird