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Crax rubra
– Near Threatened
Taxonomy
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Kingdom:
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ANIMALIA
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Phylum:
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CHORDATA
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Class:
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AVES
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Order:
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GALLIFORMES
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Family:
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CRACIDAE
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Scientific Name:
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Crax rubra
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Species Authority:
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Linnaeus, 1758
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Common Name/s:
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GREAT CURASSOW (Eng)
GRAND HOCCO (Fre)
PAVÓN NORTEÑO (Spa)
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Assessment Information
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Red List Category & Criteria:
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NT ver 3.1 (2001)
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Year Assessed:
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2004
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Assessor/s:
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BirdLife International
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Evaluator/s:
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Stattersfield, A., Benstead, P. & Butchart, S. (BirdLife International Red List Authority)
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Justification:
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Nearly qualifies for listing as threatened under criteria A2cd+3cd.
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History:
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| 1988 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004) |
| 1994 | - | Lower Risk/least concern (BirdLife International 2004) |
| 2000 | - | Lower Risk/near threatened (BirdLife International 2000) |
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Geographic Range
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Range Description:
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Crax rubra has a wide, but now highly fragmented, distribution in undisturbed humid evergreen forest (also seasonally dry forest in some areas) and mangroves, from San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, Querétaro, Hidalgo, Puebla, Veracruz, Oaxaca, Tabasco, Chiapas and the Yucatán peninsula, Mexico2,3,6, south through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama to west Colombia (Pacific lowlands east to the Gulf of Urabá and the upper Sinú valley) and, very rarely, west Ecuador9,10. The distinctive race griscomi is restricted to Cozumel Island off Mexico, where an estimated 300 individuals remain5. Widely hunted for food (and legally in Belize7), and further threatened by severe habitat loss and fragmentation1,4, it has undergone a considerable (and continuing) decline, becoming uncommon to rare or locally extinct throughout much of its range. Healthy populations occurred in the Chimalapas region of Oaxaca, but the effects of extensive fires in 1998 on the species are unknown8. However, it has recovered or remains relatively common in areas with legal protection or where it is not hunted, and populations are still stable in Guatemala and Nicaragua4.
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Countries:
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Native:
Belize; Colombia; Costa Rica; Ecuador; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama
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Habitat and Ecology
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