The Great Currasow by Ken _Gilliland

DAZ|Studio • Animals • posted on Oct 01, 2019

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Description

The Great Currasows range extends from eastern Mexico, through Central America to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. It prefers heavy rain-forests in tropical and lower subtropical zones. It is usually occurs in lowlands, but can also be found in the foothills up to altitudes of 1200 m, sometimes even higher. They eat mainly fruits, figs and arthropods. It is a monogamous species. On approaching the breeding season, they form family groups of adults and juveniles. The breeding display is a sophisticated ceremony on the ground, and includes the beating of wings and other series of movements including head bobs. The males are black with white under parts while the females vary in coloration across their range from barred, rufous and black. In this image, the male is the bird with the fanned tail with all 3 types of female coloration. This species is listed as "Vulnerable" with less than 40,000 left and a rapid decline trend in its population. Human activity is very destructive for Great Curassow. Populations rapidly disappear wherever logging roads are built into previously inaccessible forests. They are heavily hunted for food throughout their range and their habitat is being destroyed at a very fast rate. The primary sources of this habitat destruction are logging of mature forests, and habitat conversion for agriculture and livestock production. Rendered in Iray without post work. Models include Stonemason's "Through the Woods" and my Songbird ReMix Gamebirds2 as well as Nature's Wonders Ant Lines, Moths of the World v2 and Dragonflies & Damselflies v1.