Sentences with word «curassow»

She has just looked in on the two great curassow eggs, courtesy of Hans and Sigi, that are incubating at the zoo.

The next morning, when Matola came to work, she found 25 dead chickens and a dead curassow.

«He said that if you feed curassow to a dog, the dog will go crazy.

«It is like looking for a needle in a haystack without a magnet,» says Oren as he sits in the dark of the camp, digesting white - lipped peccary, which was accompanied by an appetizer of yesterday's fire - roasted free - range curassow.

The wattled curassow depends heavily on rivers (and the humid lowlands and forests that house them) for the fish, insects, and other small waterlife that it feeds on — and since they're native to South America, the deforestation, hunting, development, and logging that have been built up along the Amazon have also caused a drastic drop in the population of these birds.

In addition to this ancient metropolis being one of the most interesting, and certainly largest Maya archaeological sites anywhere, the Mountain Pine Ridge and areas surrounding Caracol provide some of the best birding around, filled with neotropical forest species such as Keel - billed Motmots, Violaceous Trogons, Ocellated Turkeys, Crested Guans, Great Curassows, and, for the lucky, the rare and humongous Harpy Eagle.

Since closing the gate to visitors, Matola, an American biologist and the founder and sole keeper of the Belize Zoo, had been tending her animals, shuttling from Balboa, the boa constrictor, to April, the tapir, to Hans and Sigi, the curassow couple, to Maya and Pinto, the handsome pair of jaguars.

Curassows are turkey - sized birds with a regal comb of plumage.

Later, explore the canals of Tortuguero National Park in small boats, on the lookout for howler, spider and capuchin monkeys, and caiman, as well as ibis, tiger herons, curassow, and other bird species.

This is a particularly popular nesting spot for scarlet macaws as well as migratory and coastal species such as the clay - colored robin and great curassow.

More than half of the country's 886 bird species make their home here, including well - known species such as great green macaws, great curassows, keel - billed toucans, spectacled owls, and pied puffbirds.

In the forest around the lake common sighting may include Jacamars, Trogons, Puff - birds, Crested Guans and Great Curassows.

Of the many birds in the area, scarlet macaws, toucans, great curassows are a common sight.

Other animals in the park include Central American squirrel monkeys, mantled howler monkeys, both two - toed and three - toed sloths, agoutis, giant anteaters, great curassows, black hawks, spectacled owls, hummingbirds, 220 species of butterflies, golden orb spiders (who build huge webs), otters and raccoons.

More than 300 species of birds include quetzals, toucan, the elegant trogon, eagles, three - wattled bellbirds, and the curassow.