Ortalis garrula
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In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
The chestnut-winged chachalaca (Ortalis garrula) is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, and curassows. It is endemic to Colombia. The chestnut-winged chachalaca was at one time treated as conspecific with the grey-headed chachalaca (Ortalis cinereiceps). It is monotypic.
The chestnut-winged chachalaca is 53 to 60 cm (1.7 to 2.0 ft) long. One male weighed 755 g (1.7 lb) and a female 630 g (1.4 lb). Both sexes have brown upperparts that are lighter on the crown and nape; the tail is dark gray-brown with a white tip. The throat and upper breast are also brown with a sharp demarcation between it and the white lower breast, flanks, and belly. The primary flight feathers are bright chestnut. The eye is surrounded by bare reddish to black skin.
The chestnut-winged chachalaca is found in northern Colombia in an area roughly bounded on the west by the Sinú River, in the east by the foothills of the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, and in the south by the lower Cauca and Magdalena River valleys. It inhabits a variety of landscapes characterized by thick vegetation such as scrubby deciduous... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
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| 1 | Barranquilla | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
| # | Zoo / Centre | Country | |
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| 1 | Aviario Nacional de Colombia | 🇨🇴 Colombia |
No species of the same family or order lives in Barranquilla, so these are its closest relatives here: other birds.
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Chestnut-winged Chachalaca sighting in Barranquilla on a given day, based on 38 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 90th most-seen of the 153 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Chestnut-winged Chachalaca in Barranquilla on a given day, against under 5% in February–April, June and October–December, the lowest months.
Between 6 and 9 am
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Chestnut-winged Chachalaca sightings with a recorded time, and about 9 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Barranquilla, in our data
Barranquilla is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Chestnut-winged Chachalaca sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Chestnut-winged Chachalaca is recorded against all the birds logged in Barranquilla (38 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
