Black Curassow

The black curassow (Crax alector), also known as the smooth-billed curassow and the crested curassow, is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, and curassows. It is found in humid forests in northern South America in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas including Suriname, and far northern Brazil, and is introduced to Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Lesser Antilles. It is the only Crax curassow where the male and female cannot be separated by plumage, as both are essentially black with a white crissum (the area around the cloaca), and have a yellow (eastern part of its range) or orange-red (western part of its range) cere.

From Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Black Curassow being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Crax rubra
• Crax blumenbachii
• Crax fasciolata
• Crax alberti
• Mitu salvini

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Galliformes

Family

Cracidae

Genus

Crax

Species

Crax alector

More species