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How Many Cracids Have You Seen? (1 Viewer)

Ben88

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9 for me:

1. Gray-headed Chachalaca - Panama
2. Speckled Chachalaca -Peru, Ecuador
3. Andean Guan - Peru, Ecuador
4. Spix's Guan - Peru, Ecuador
5. Blue-throated Piping-Guan - Peru, Ecuador
5. Wattled Guan - Peru, Ecuador
7. Sickle-winged Guan - Ecuador
8. Salvin's Curassow - Ecuador
9. Razor-billed Curassow - Peru
 
18 for me:

Plain Chachalaca
Grey-headed Chachalaca
Chaco Chachalaca
Speckled Chachalaca
Andean Guan
Spix's Guan
Crested Guan
Dusky-legged Guan
Chestnut-bellied Guan
Trinidad Piping-Guan
Blue-throated Piping-Guan
Red-throated Piping-Guan
Black Guan
Sickle-winged Guan
Crestless Curassow
Great Curassow
Black Curassow
Bare-faced Curassow
 
Following IOC, I have seen this lot:

Plain Chachalaca Ortalis vetula
Grey-headed Chachalaca Ortalis cinereiceps
Chestnut-winged Chachalaca Ortalis garrula
Rufous-vented Chachalaca Ortalis ruficauda
Rufous-headed Chachalaca Ortalis erythroptera
Rufous-bellied Chachalaca Ortalis wagleri
West Mexican Chachalaca Ortalis poliocephala
Chaco Chachalaca Ortalis canicollis
Speckled Chachalaca Ortalis guttata
East Brazilian Chachalaca Ortalis araucuan
Scaled Chachalaca Ortalis squamata
Colombian Chachalaca Ortalis columbiana
Little Chachalaca Ortalis motmot
Band-tailed Guan Penelope argyrotis
Bearded Guan Penelope barbata
Baudó Guan Penelope ortoni
Andean Guan Penelope montagnii
Marail Guan Penelope marail
Rusty-margined Guan Penelope superciliaris
Red-faced Guan Penelope dabbenei
Crested Guan Penelope purpurascens
Cauca Guan Penelope perspicax
White-winged Guan Penelope albipennis
Spix's Guan Penelope jacquacu
Dusky-legged Guan Penelope obscura
White-crested Guan Penelope pileata
Chestnut-bellied Guan Penelope ochrogaster
White-browed Guan Penelope jacucaca
Blue-throated Piping Guan Pipile cumanensis
Red-throated Piping Guan Pipile cujubi
Black-fronted Piping Guan Pipile jacutinga
Wattled Guan Aburria aburri
Black Guan Chamaepetes unicolor
Sickle-winged Guan Chamaepetes goudotii
Nocturnal Curassow Nothocrax urumutum
Crestless Curassow Mitu tomentosum
Salvin's Curassow Mitu salvini
Razor-billed Curassow Mitu tuberosum
Northern Helmeted Curassow Pauxi pauxi
Great Curassow Crax rubra
Yellow-knobbed Curassow Crax daubentoni
Black Curassow Crax alector
Wattled Curassow Crax globulosa
Bare-faced Curassow Crax fasciolata
Red-knobbed Curassow Crax blumenbachii

Still a few to get, but doubt that I will be adding to this tally (45) anytime real soon.
 
1 Plain Chachalaca
2 Rufous-vented Chachalaca
3 Band-tailed Guan
4 Crested Guan
5 Trinidad Piping Guan
6 Black Guan
7 Great Curassow
8 Yellow-knobbed Curassow

Not many, but I'm only just starting on America, south of the Rio Grande.

Chris
 
Zero for me, or if you read this as phonetically as you please, 'how many crackheads have you seen', still not very many ...
 
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