Crax fasciolata
Silhouette: Sheatherius · PhyloPic
In 3 days ~90% in a week >90%
The bare-faced curassow (Crax fasciolata) is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, curassows, etc. It is found in Brazil, Paraguay, and eastern Bolivia, and extreme northeast Argentina, in the cerrado, pantanal, and the southeastern region of the Amazon basin. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forest and subtropical or tropical moist lowland forest.
The bare-faced curassow is a large bird reaching a length of 82 to 92 centimetres (32 to 36 in). The sexes differ in appearance. The male has black upper parts faintly glossed with greenish-olive, with an unfeathered face with yellowish bare skin, a small black crest, and white underparts. The female, on the other hand, has a black head, throat, neck and upper mantle, and a black and white barred crest. The remainder of the upper parts are greenish-black barred with white or ochre. The... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 2 | Emas National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 3 | Serra da Canastra National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil | |
| 4 | Amboró National Park | 🇧🇴 Bolivia | |
| 5 | Chapada dos Guimarães National Park | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Campo Grande | 🇧🇷 Brazil |
Likely
About 50% of wildlife watchers report a Bare-faced Curassow sighting in Emas National Park on a given day, based on 160 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data from 2019 to 2026. It is the 27th most-seen of the 187 birds we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 90%, and over a week to over 90%, if each day is a fresh chance.
August
In that month about 80% of wildlife watchers report a Bare-faced Curassow in Emas National Park on a given day, against about 30% in June, the lowest month. That is one of Emas National Park's driest months, with about 15 mm of rain against 190 mm in January. April and December–February have too few records to rate.
Between 4 and 7 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Bare-faced Curassow sightings with a recorded time, and about 8 in 10 of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Among the best
Of the 5 parks where we can rate Bare-faced Curassow sightings, Emas National Park ranks 2nd at about 50%, level with the leaders once rounded. The best odds are in Parque Estadual Encontro das Águas (Brazil, about 50%).
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Bare-faced Curassow is recorded against all the birds logged in Emas National Park (160 verified sightings from 2019 to 2026), 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.
