Order
Galliformes
Family
Cracidae
Genus
Ortalis
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Colombian Chachalaca Ortalis columbiana

Diana Carolina Acosta-Rojas and Dalia C. Barragán Barrera
Version: 1.0 — Published June 27, 2014

Acknowledgments

Introduction

We want to thank to Martin Borrero Urbanski and Carlos Mario Wagner Wagner, who have shared their Colombian Chachalaca pictures on the web. Special thanks to the people who conducted research on the biology of O. columbiana for providing us with information about this species. We are indebted to the Cali Zoo Foundation, Campestral Cali Club and El Refugio Foundation for their support Diana Acosta's thesis research on frugivory and seed dispersal of Colombian Chachalaca.

Recommended Citation

Acosta-Rojas, D. C. and D. C. Barragán Barrera (2014). Colombian Chachalaca (Ortalis columbiana), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.colcha1.01