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Horned Curassow
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IUCN EN · Endangered

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Horned Curassow

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Horned Curassow

Pauxi unicornis

The horned curassow or southern helmeted curassow (Pauxi unicornis) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family found in humid tropical and subtropical forests. It was first described by James Bond and Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee in 1939 from a specimen collected in Bolivia, and further birds that were described from Peru in 1971 were thought to be a new subspecies. However, the taxonomical position (as subspecies or independent species) of the birds found in...

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