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Horned Curassow

Pauxi unicornis

Classification

Class
Aves
Family
Cracidae

The horned curassow (Pauxi unicornis), or southern helmeted curassow, is a species of bird in the family Cracidae found in humid tropical and subtropical forests. It was first described by James Bond and Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee in 1939 from a specimen collected in Bolivia, and further birds that were described from Peru in 1971 were thought to be a new subspecies. However, the taxonomic position (as subspecies or independent species) of the birds found in Peru in 1971 is unclear.

Distribution

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Countries in the Picchu catalog
Bolivia · 13