Bare-faced curassow

Crax fasciolata

Naaktgezichthokko (Sclater's hokko)

The Bare-faced Curassow (Crax fasciolata) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family, the chachalacas, guans, curassows, etc. It is found in eastern-central and southern Brazil, Paraguay, and eastern Bolivia, and extreme northeast Argentina, in the cerrado, pantanal, and the southeastern region of the Amazon Basin.

This species inhabits humid, semi-deciduous and gallery forests, and is often recorded in woodland edges (del Hoyo 1994). The global population size has not been quantified, but this species is described as 'fairly common' (Stotz et al. 1996).

Above: a male in the Pantanal Matogrossense National Park, Brazil

Above: female (left) and male in the Pantanal Matogrossense National Park, Brazil

Above: female in the Pantanal Matogrossense National Park, Brazil

Above: a couple of Bare-faced curassows in captivity (Netherlands)

Above: a Bare-faced curassow skeleton