Species
Least Concernvia IUCN
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Ortalis
- Image
- Rufous-vented Chachalaca - Guacharaca del Norte (Ortalis ruficauda) (8629080871).jpg
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- taxon rank
- species
- litter size
- 3.5
- IUCN conservation status
- Least Concern
- taxon name
- Ortalis ruficauda
- Commons category
- Ortalis ruficauda
- Commons gallery
- Ortalis ruficauda
- taxon common name
- chachalaca-de-crisso-ruivo
- egg incubation period
- 28
- short name
- O. ruficauda
- taxon range
- South America
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Encyclopedic overview
The rufous-vented chachalaca (Ortalis ruficauda) is a member of an ancient group of birds of the family Cracidae, which are related to the Australasian mound builders. It inhabits northeast Colombia and northern Venezuela where it is called guacharaca, and the island of Tobago in Trinidad and Tobago where it is known as the cocrico and is one of the country's two national birds (being featured on the country's coat of arms). It is also found on Bequia and Union Island in the Grenadines where it may have been introduced.
Habitat
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rufous-vented Chachalaca” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.