Great curassow (Crax rubra)

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Range

The nominate subspecies, C. r. rubra, is distributed from eastern Mexico south through Central America (Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama) to western Colombia and western Ecuador (6) (10). The rarer subspecies, C. r. griscomi, is confined to Cozumel Island off Mexico, where just 300 birds were estimated to survive in 1996 (10) (11).

View a distribution map for this species at UNEP World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

Habitat

The great curassow is found in undisturbed humid evergreen forest and mangroves, and also seasonally dry forest in some areas (10), at low to medium elevations (6).