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Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Reports and Other Materials

Date of this Version

2006

Document Type

Article

Citation

Miscellaneous Publications, Houston Museum of Natural Science (2006) 6

ISBN: 0-9668278-2-1

Includes some text in Spanish and Portuguese

Comments

Copyright 2006, Houston Museum of Natural Science. Used by permission

Abstract

Preface, Russell Mittermeier

Foreword, Stuart D. Strahl

Biology and Conservation of Cracids, Daniel M. Brooks and Richard A. Fuller

  • Introduction
  • The natural history of cracids
  • Why are iracids important
  • Threats to the survival of cracids
  • Conservation actions for cracids

Methods, Daniel M. Brooks and Stuart D. Strahl

Extinct in the Wild and Critically Endangered

  • Alagoas curassow (Mitu mitu), Carlos A. Bianchi
  • White-winged guan (Penelope albipennis), Fernando Angulo Pratolongo, Víctor Raúl Díaz, Rob Williams, and Laura Cancino
  • Trinidad piping-guan (Aburria pipile), Floyd E. Hayes
  • Horned guan (Oreophasis derbianus), Fernando González-García, Javier Antípatro Rivas Romero, and Ana José Cóbar Carranza
  • Blue-billed curassow (Crax alberti), Luis Eduardo Urueña, Alonso Quevedo Gil, Paul Salaman, Hernán Darío Arias, and Eliana Marcela Machado

Endangered Cracids

  • Baudó guan (Penelope ortoni), Carlos Julián Idrobo-M., Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, and Olaf Jahn
  • Cauca guan (Penelope perspicax), Marcia C. Muñoz, Margarita M. Rios, and Gustavo A. Londoño
  • Black-fronted piping-guan (Aburria jacutinga), Christine Steiner São Bernardo and Rob P. Clay
  • Helmeted curassow (Pauxi pauxi), Adrián Naveda-Rodríguez and Stuart D. Strahl
  • Horned curassow (Pauxi unicornis), Ross MacLeod, Rodrigo Soria, and Melvin Gastañaga
  • Red-billed Curassow (Crax blumenbachii), Carlos A. Bianchi
  • Wattled curassow (Crax globulosa), Hugo Aranibar-Rojas

Vulnerable Cracids

  • Rufous-headed chachalaca (Ortalis erythroptera), Javier Barrio and Víctor Raúl Díaz
  • Bearded guan (Penelope barbata), Fernando Angulo Pratolongo and Rob Williams
  • Chestnut-bellied guan (Penelope ochrogaster), Paulo de Tarso Zuquim Antas
  • White-browed guan (Penelope jacucaca), Andrei L. Roos and Paulo de Tarso Zuquim Antas
  • Black guan (Chamaepetes unicolor), Gilles Seutin
  • Highland guan (Penelopina nigra), Knut Eisermann, Néstor Herrera, and Oliver Komar
  • Yellow-knobbed curassow (Crax daubentoni), Richard Buchholz and Carolina Bertsch

Near-threatened Cracids

  • Buff-browed chachalaca (Ortalis superciliaris), David C. Oren
  • White-crested guan (Penelope pileata), David C. Oren
  • Wattled guan (Aburria aburri), Margarita M. Rios, Marcia C. Muñoz, and Gustavo A. Londoño
  • Great curassow (Crax rubra), Margarita M. Rios and Marcia C. Muñoz
  • Bare-faced currasow (Crax fasciolata), Rob P. Clay and David C. Oren

Country Assessments

  • Northern Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua, Fernando González-G., Javier A. Rivas Romero, Ana José Cóbar Carranza, Knut Eisermann, Néstor Herrera, Oliver Komar, Margarita M. Rios, Marcia C. Muñoz, and Daniel M. Brooks
  • Southern Central America: Costa Rica and Panama, Fernando González-G., Gilles Seutin, Margarita Rios, Marcia Muñoz, and Daniel Brooks
  • Northern South America: Colombia, Venezuela, and Trinidad, Carolina Bertsch, Ivan Jimenez, Floyd E. Hayes, Luis Eduardo Urueña, Alonso Quevedo G., Paul Salaman, Hernán D. Arias, Eliana Marcela Machado, Carlos Julián Idrobo-M., Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, Olaf Jahn, Richard Buchholz, Marcia C. Muñoz, Margarita M. Rios, Gustavo Londoño, Adrián Naveda-R., Stuart Strahl, Hugo Aranibar-R., and Daniel Brooks
  • Western South America: Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia, Fernando Angulo Pratolongo, Ross MacLeod, Olaf Jahn, Carlos Julián Idrobo-Medina, Eduardo Gallo-Cajiao, Víctor Raúl Díaz, Rob Williams, Laura Cancino, Rodrigo Soria, Melvin Gastañaga, Margarita M. Rios, Marcia C. Muñoz, Gustavo A. Londoño, Hugo Aranibar-Rojas, Javier Barrio, Rob P. Clay, David C. Oren, and Daniel M. Brooks
  • Brazil, Sergio Luiz Pereira, Carlos A. Bianchi, Christine Steiner São Bernardo, Rob Clay, Paulo de Tarso Z. Antas, Andrei L. Roos, David C. Oren, and Daniel Brooks
  • Central South America: Paraguay and Argentina, Rob P. Clay, Silvina Malzof, Ruben Quintana, Christine Steiner São Bernardo, David C. Oren, and Daniel M. Brooks

Ecoregional Analysis, Daniel M. Brooks

Taxonomic Reference List, Stuart D. Strahl and Angela Schmitz, with comments by Sergio L. Pereira

Authors and CSG Officers

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