Bare-faced Curassows in the garden
The Bare-faced Curassows is one of only a handful of birds where the female sports more colorful and distinctive plumage than the male (the phalaropes are another example), and this is clearly visible in the photo as the two in the background are females and the blurry one in the foreground is the male. This has nothing to do with Avian sexism but rether who spends more time on the nest - birds where the female sits on the nest often show strong sexual dimorphism with colorful males and drab, cryptically colored females. Interestingly, in Phalaropes where the females are also more colorful, it is the males that sit on the eggs in the nest! I don't know about curassows, maybe someone here knows something?
The Bare-faced Curassow is a species of bird in the Cracidae family, the chachalacas, guans, curassows, etc.
It is found in eastern-central and southern Brazil, Paraguay, and eastern Bolivia, and extreme northeast Argentina, in the cerrado, pantanal, and the southeastern region of the Amazon Basin.
