Aburria jacutinga

The black-fronted pheasant is a large bird, 63-74 cm long, turk-like in appearance, with a young neck and a thin head. They are mostly black with blue patches. Their wings are slightly white with three lines of tiny black spots. The chest is white, the throat has a red sag, and the front is dark blue. The eyes are white without feathers and the skin is white, and the facial and forehead feathers are black, which are characteristic of the same genus. Their feet are red.

It is a crested pheasant found in the Atlantic forests of southeastern Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay. There are no other pheasants in the range of the black-fronted pheasant, except the blue-throated pheasant, which is found in relatively close proximity to Peru.

The black-fronted crested pheasant is known as Pipile jacutinga or Aburria jacutinga, which was previously classified as one of two species of crested pheasant. However, mitochondrial DNA, osteological and biogeographical analyses have revealed that the apoplectic crested is a black screw-crested pheasant, and many of the categories of screw-crested pheasants are actually separate species. The black-fronted Crested pheasant is the basal member of its genus, but its relationship to the fleshly crested pheasant is unclear.

Due to hunting and habitat loss, the black-fronted pheasant population has become scarce.

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