Paují Tuberoso

Identificación

The razor-billed curassow is 83 to 89 cm (2.7 to 2.9 ft) long and males weigh about 3,860 g (8.5 lb). Their plumage is mostly black with a strong purplish blue gloss. The lower belly and undertail coverts are chestnut and the tips of the tail feathers white. It has a tall ragged crest. Its large bright red bill is laterally compressed, which gives the species its common name.

Taxonomía

The razor-billed curassow was originally placed in genus Crax but genetic data confirm that Mitu is a valid genus. It was for a time treated as a subspecies of Alagoas curassow (Mitu mitu) and they are now treated as sister species. The razor-billed curassow is monotypic.

Nombre científico

Mitu tuberosum

Autoridad

(Spix, 1825)

Orden

Galliformes

Familia

Crácidos

Género

Mitu

Distribución y hábitat

The razor-billed curassow is found in much of Amazonia, mostly south of the Amazon River in eastern Peru, northern Bolivia, and northern Brazil all the way to the Atlantic coast. It is found north of the Amazon in southeastern Colombia, extreme northeastern Peru, and Brazil as far east as the Rio Negro. It inhabits lowland evergreen forest, primarily terra firme but also gallery and várzea forests and along the margins of lakes and streams. In elevation it ranges from sea level to 1,350 m (4,400 ft) though it may only locally exceed 1,000 m (3,300 ft).

Migración

Especie residente

Comportamiento

Patrón migratorio: Especie residente.

Conservación

Tendencia poblacional: en declive.

Tendencia poblacional

en declive