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Detailed description of the family with images.
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Curassows and guans The oldest fossil cracid is from 50 million years ago in what is now Wyoming. Today, cracids are exotic, elusive, and sometimes spectacular denizens of steaming lowland jungles, misty cloud forests, or arid scrub woodland. They are much more arboreal...Information about chachalacas, guans, and curassows and their conservation.
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Cracid Specialist Group Search: Lycos Angelfire Harry Potter Share This Page Report Abuse Edit your Site Browse Sites 171; Previous Top 100 Next 187; Cracid Specialist Group Website has moved to: www.cracids.org...Family description and sounds.
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Cracidae Ortalis cinereiceps calling MORE IMAGES: RECENT LITERATURE: Back (Images taken from Peterson, R. T. and Edward. L. Chalif. A Field Guide to Mexican Birds. Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 1973)...Provides a photo, sound recording, taxonomy chart, and identification tips.
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Plain Chachalaca In order to display this page a browser is needed that displays frames....Photo of this species in Costa Rica.
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Gray-headed Chachalaca Gray-headed Chachalaca (Ortalis cinereiceps) Costa Rica. March 1996....Photos and brief description of this species.
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Chaco Chachalaca (Ortalis canicollis) Chachalaca is found in the centre of South America where Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil meet. There are two subspecies and this one is the O.c. pantanalensis which is larger and browner than the nominate subspecies. In the Pantanal they...Offers photos and facts about this bird's range and habitat.
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Little Chachalaca Ortalis motmot Chachalaca is found from southern Venezuela through the Guianas and into Brazil south to just below the river Amazon. The birds found south of the Amazon belong to the subspecies Ortalis motmot ruficeps known in English as the Rufous-headed Chachalaca...