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Photo by blubird
La Selva OTS, Costa Rica, January 2007

Ortalis cinereiceps

[edit] Identification

Head grayish, tail brownish gray with buff tips, body mostly brown with rufous on primaries and a red skin fold is often visible on the throat.

[edit] Distribution

Central and South America: found from tropical eastern Honduras to north-western Colombia

[edit] Taxonomy

Photo by njlarsen
Rancho Naturalista, Costa Rica, January 2011

Monotypic^[1]

This taxon is considered a subspecies of Chestnut-winged Chachalaca by some authors^[2]

Three subspecies are recognised by some authors: O. c. cinereiceps, O. c. olivacea and O. c. chocoensis^[2]

[edit] Habitat

Rain forest

[edit] Behaviour

Mostly in flocks which flies one after another from one spot to the next.

Does not have a "Chachalaca" sound

[edit] References

1. Clements, JF. 2008. The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World. 6th ed., with updates to December 2008. Ithaca: Cornell Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0801445019.
2. Avibase
3. Ridgely & Gwynne 1989. Birds of Panama. Princeton Paperbacks. ISBN 0691025126
4. Garrigues and Dean 2007. The birds of Costa Rica - a field guide. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-7373-9

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