A loud, long-tailed chachalaca of western Mexico. It occurs in tropical forest and forest edges, often in small groups, and forages on the ground and in trees for fruit.
It is large and long-tailed, with dark cinnamon coloring on the belly and tail tips.
On the coastal plains of southern Sonora and northern Sinaloa in northwest Mexico, pairs were found among large trees and dense brush beside canals and arroyos.
In the same coastal region, pairs were not found in thorn forest far from large trees or dense brush.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.