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title: "Czubacz zmienny"
description: "Crax rubra — Ptaki. The great curassow (Crax rubra) is a large, pheasant-like bird from the Neotropical rainforests, its range extending from eastern Mexico, through Central America to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/great-curassow
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Czubacz zmienny

> Crax rubra — Ptaki. The great curassow (Crax rubra) is a large, pheasant-like bird from the Neotropical rainforests, its range extending from eastern Mexico, through Central America to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador.

- Scientific name: *Crax rubra*
- Category: `birds` (Ptaki)
- Habitats: `forest` (Las), `jungle` (Dżungla)
- iNaturalist observations: 6871
- Wikidata: [Q572638](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q572638)
- iNaturalist taxon: [2052](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/2052)

## Names

- en: Great Curassow
- de: Tuberkelhokko
- es: Pavón Grande
- fr: Grand Hocco
- nl: Bruine hokko
- pl: Czubacz zmienny

## Countries with the most observations

CR (5017), MX (500), PA (179), BZ (99), GT (72), CO (42), HN (12), EC (5), NI (4)

## Summary

The great curassow (Crax rubra) is a large, pheasant-like bird from the Neotropical rainforests, its range extending from eastern Mexico, through Central America to western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Male birds are black with curly crests and yellow beaks; females come in three colour morphs, barred, rufous and black. These birds form small groups, foraging mainly on the ground for fruits and arthropods, and the occasional small vertebrate, but they roost and nest in trees. This species is monogamous, the male usually building the rather small nest of leaves in which two eggs are laid. This species is threatened…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_curassow

## Photo

![Czubacz zmienny](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/great-curassow/medium.jpg)

Photo: ChrisMcV · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/336000637

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/great-curassow?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).