Chestnut-winged Chachalaca
Ortalis garrula(Humboldt, FWHA, 1805)
English (US) Chestnut-winged Chachalaca
The Chestnut-winged Chachalaca (Ortalis garrula) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Cracidae (Guans, Curassows, and Chachalacas) in the order Galliformes.
Range: woodland and scrub of northern ColombiaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Ortalis garrula
- Order
- Galliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern
- English (US)
- Chestnut-winged Chachalaca
- Described by
- (Humboldt, FWHA, 1805)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Phasianus garrulus
- Described by
- (Humboldt, FWHA, 1805)
- Type locality
- 'riviere de la Madeleine, dans la province de Caracas et dans la Nouvelle-Andalousie' = Magdalena River, Colombia.
- Original description
- Recueil d'observations de zoologie et d'anatomie comparée, faites dans l'Océan Atlantique, dans l'intérieur du nouveau continent et dans la mer du sud pendant les années 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 et 1803 p.4
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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