Name:Ortalis araucuan
Alias:Ortalis araucuan,East Brazilian Chachalaca
Outline:Landfowl
Family:Chickeniformes P.family P.Minutus
length:About 50 cm
Weight:No textual research information is available
Life:No textual research information is available
IUCN:LC
Eastern Brazilian Chachalaca (Ortalis araucuan), no subspecies.
The Brazilian crested pheasant usually plays an important role as a seed disperser. It feeds mainly on banana fruit, coffee berries and tree leaves. Like the pheasants of the same genus, the diet consists more of leaves than fruit, and occasionally pecks at insects. There will be loud and repeated beeps and alarm sounds. Generally in small, monogamous groups, breeding is most likely to occur during the rainy season, between December and May. Each litter hatches an average of three chicks.
Listed on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) 2016 Red List of Threatened Species ver 3.1 - Not Threatened (LC).
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