Salvin's Curassow lives in humid forests of the western Amazon. Its white belly and red-orange bill stand out against its dark plumage.
Its plumage is glossy blue-black, with a white belly and flanks and a white tail tip. The red-orange bill curves downward, and the head has a crest.
Salvin’s Curassows walk through western Amazonian forests, alone, in pairs or in small groups. A camera survey documented one in Ecuador’s Nangaritza watershed.
At11:40 on22 July2014, one bird appeared in four consecutive30-second videos at900m in Maycú Reserve. The site was dense premontane forest.
The locality lay about200km from the nearest well-documented Ecuadorian record. Published in2017, it added evidence of occurrence in the Cordillera del Cóndor, where forest conversion and mining threaten habitats.
IUCN Red List (BirdLife listing) · Least Concern · Global
BirdLife lists Least Concern globally. The Ecuadorian report identifies hunting and habitat loss, including forest conversion and mining in Nangaritza, as regional conservation concerns.