Black curassow

The black curassow , also known as the smooth-billed curassow and the crested curassow, is a species of bird in the family Cracidae, the chachalacas, guans, and curassows. It is found in humid forests in northern South America in Colombia, Venezuela, the Guianas and far northern Brazil, and is introduced to Bahamas, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and Lesser Antilles. It is the only ''Crax'' curassow where the male and female cannot be separated by plumage, as both are essentially black with a white crissum , and have a yellow or orange-red cere.