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Black Curassow
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Guans, curassows & quails

Black Curassow

Crax alector Linnaeus, 1766

LC Least ConcernOn Suriname's list of threatened fauna

Names

EnglishBlack Curassow
DutchZwarte Hokko
SpanishPavón Guayanés
Chinese黑凤冠雉
Sranan Tongopowisi
Scientific nameCrax alector Linnaeus, 1766

About this species

The black curassow (Crax alector), also known as the smooth-billed curassow and the crested curassow, is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, and curassows. It is found in humid forests in northern South America in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas including Suriname, and far northern Brazil, and is introduced to Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Lesser Antilles. It is the only Crax curassow where the male and female cannot be separated by plumage, as both are essentially black with a white crissum (the area around the cloaca), and have a yellow (eastern part of its range) or orange-red (western part of its range) cere.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderGalliformes
FamilyCracidae
GenusCrax

In Suriname

1,088Records in Suriname
20iNaturalist observations
1857First record
2026Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Brokopondo812
  • Sipaliwini239
  • Para4
  • Commewijne1

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

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