BIRD OF THE WEEK — GREAT CURASSOW — PLANET EARTH BIRD WORLD group

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Great Curassow

SCIENTIFIC NAME: Crax rubra
POPULATION: 6,700 – 40,000
TREND: Decreasing
HABITAT: Undisturbed tropical forests.

The Great Curassow is a big bird, about the size of a domestic turkey, and is prized by local people for its meat. Overhunting and habitat loss have made this species quite shy. A good look at a male Great Curassow reveals a handsome bird with glossy black plumage and a crest of forward-curling feathers.

This species is the largest and most northerly occurring of the mostly tropical curassow tribe, which includes the critically endangered Blue-billed Curassow of Colombia.

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