This chachalaca occurs in northeastern Brazil. It has an ochraceous-cinnamon crown and hindneck with a white belly, and uses humid forest and scrubby woodland where it feeds on fruit.
It has an ochraceous-cinnamon crown and hindneck and a white belly.
An East Brazilian Chachalaca nest stood on vines over a banana tree beside a marsh in Pedra Talhada Biological Reserve, Brazil.
Found on21January2020, it held three white eggs stained green by decaying lining leaves. Two hatched on the same day.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
The2022 paper documents breeding in Pedra Talhada reserve and an author’s impression of increased numbers around Quebrangulo since2000. These are local observations of habitat use and population change.