Peggy, the Northern Helmeted Curassow at the Denver Zoo, USA
The helmeted curassow (Pauxi pauxi) or northern helmeted curassow, is a large terrestrial bird in the family Cracidae found in the subtropical cloud-forest in steep, mountainous regions of western Venezuela and northern Colombia. There are two subspecies found in different mountain ranges. It is a mostly black bird with a white tip to its tail, a red bill and a distinctive grey casque on its forehead. The population of this bird is in decline and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated its conservation status as "endangered".
^BirdLife International (2016). "Pauxi pauxi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22678497A92776062. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22678497A92776062.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
The helmetedcurassow (Pauxi pauxi) or northern helmetedcurassow, is a large terrestrial bird in the family Cracidae found in the subtropical cloud-forest...
Curassows are one of the three major groups of cracid birds. They comprise the largest-bodied species of the cracid family. Three of the four genera are...
The horned curassow (Pauxi unicornis), or southern helmetedcurassow, is a species of bird in the family Cracidae found in humid tropical and subtropical...
The genus Pauxi consists of the three species of helmetedcurassows, terrestrial black fowl with ornamental casque on their heads. All are found in South...
species of curassow (the northern helmeted, the southern helmeted, and the black are all around the same average length as the great curassow. In this species...
Platalea leucorodia, the whooping crane, Grus americana, and the helmetedcurassow, Pauxi pauxi) the trachea, which some cranes can be 1.5 m long, is...
from the core Galliformes after the Cracidae (chachalacas, guans, and curassows) and before the Odontophoridae (New World quail). An Eocene fossil lineage...
and even extinct in the wild species of fish. Outside are macaws, helmetedcurassow, cockatoos, parrots, agoutis, gibbons, serval, wildcats, wallabies...
meyerdeschauenseei), Andean cock-of-the-rock (Rupicola peruvianus), and southern helmetedcurassow (Pauxi unicornis). The Bolivian Yungas is the center of the Afro-Bolivian...
the swift, harpy eagle, the lonely eagle, the Wetmore cock, the helmetedcurassow, the guiro, the sorocuá acorallado, the military macaw and the siskin...
Platalea leucorodia, the whooping crane, Grus americana, and the helmetedcurassow, Pauxi pauxi) the trachea, which some cranes can be 1.5 m long, is...
are poached for consuming their meat. In Colombia the endangered helmetedcurassow and the near threatened wattled guan are poached for their meat and...
overall shape and color, whereas the horn is more reminiscent of the helmetedcurassows. The species is the only survivor of a very ancient lineage of cracids...
features Sumatran orangutans, white-handed gibbons, Müller's gibbons, helmetedcurassows and blue-throated macaws. Next, an indoor building houses pygmy slow...
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