Family: Cracidae (Guans, Chachalacas, Curassows)

Authority: Gray, 1844

Red List Category

Criteria: C2a(i)

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Justification of Red List category
This species is Endangered because remaining populations are very small and, given continuing threats, declining. Further surveys may find this species to be more widespread than recent records suggest, but effective protection of known sites is required if its conservation status is genuinely to improve.

Population size: 600-1700 mature individuals

Population trend: decreasing

Extent of occurrence (breeding/resident): 56,300 km²

Country endemic: no

Attributes
Land-mass type - continent
Realm - Neotropical
IUCN System - Terrestrial