"The curassow is my favorite bird," said Mr. González, referring to the roasted meat consumed for dinner the previous night.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The curassow was the best behaved of the party.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco] Reference

The specialist's hat makes a noise like a curassow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-08-01] Reference

The blue-billed curassow Crax alberti, is extinct in the region of the upper Magdalena.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magdalena Valley dry forests] Reference

Habitat association and notes of the southern helmeted curassow (Pauxi unicornis) in Carrasco National Park, Bolivia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bolivian Yungas] Reference

There are bird species with restricted distribution such as the wattled curassow Crax globulosa (VU), and the horned screamer Anhima cornuta.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil] Reference

Alagoas curassow, Mitu mitu, a large and extraordinary bird considered extinct in the wild, was possibly restricted to the Pernambuco coastal forests.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pernambuco coastal forests] Reference

Additionally, expeditions undertaken just to study such rare and strongly endemic populations, such as the southern helmeted curassow (Pauxi unicornis).    From Wordnik.com.  [Bolivian Yungas] Reference

The organization has created 15 birding reserves, like the El Paujil Reserve, where birders may be lucky to see the endangered blue-billed curassow, at left.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guerrilla Birding] Reference

However, there was still an occasional partridge, a monkey or a turkey-like curassow and when one of them was secured Oomah ate sparingly so that the meat lasted several days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Black Phantom] Reference

Notable are horned screamer Anhima cornuta, Orinoco goose Neochen jubata, harpy eagle, black and white hawk-eagle Spizastur melanoleucusCrax globulosa (VU). and wattled curassow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Central Amazonian Conservation Complex, Brazil] Reference

Because most of the region's forests have been cleared during 500 years of exploitation, many species are now threatened, and at least one is extinct in the wild, the Alagoas curassow (Crax mitu).    From Wordnik.com.  [Biological diversity in the Atlantic Forest] Reference

In the western portion the endemic rusty-flanked crake (Laterallus levraudi) and the northern helmeted curassow (Pauxi pauxi), common to other ecoregions, are vulnerable and endangered respectively.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cordillera La Costa montane forests] Reference

The powerful eagles Spizaetus tyrannus, Morphnus guianensis and Harpia harpyja, the critically endangered blue knobbed curassow Crax alberti, six species of macaws Ara ambigua, A. militaris, A. ararauna, A. macao, A. chloroptera, and A. severa, among others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Magdalena-Urabá moist forests] Reference

Large birds, like the curassow, and also monkeys, were shot for food.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theodore Roosevelt] Reference

We first visited the tree on which he had set the snare for the curassow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco] Reference

Then they came across a black curassow, a bird resembling a wild turkey, and promptly shot it.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The curator of a toponym zoo could show us a curassow (of Curacao), leghorn (of Leghorn, Italy), spaniel.    From Wordnik.com.  [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4] Reference

The sariema (like the screamer and the curassow) ought to be introduced into our barnyards and on our lawns, at any rate in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

Here the curassow, the jacu, the jacami, and the unicorn resemble as much the bustard and other ostrich-like birds as the hen and pheasant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

Kermit and Lyra again hunted; the former shot a curassow, which was welcome, as we were endeavoring in all ways to economize our food supply.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through the Brazilian Wilderness] Reference

Putting the curassow on the ground, with its legs tied, Kallolo begged me to assist him in throwing a quantity of earth over the front of the pit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco] Reference

When passing down this road, I at times saw the fine curl-crested curassow (Crax globicera), as large as a turkey, jet black, excepting underneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Naturalist in Nicaragua] Reference

Marian imitated his example with regard to her curassow; and the bird soon knew her, and showed its pleasure when she approached with its favourite fruit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco] Reference

Kallolo had brought a bag, the mouth secured by a string; this he managed to slip over its head, so that it, like the curassow, was completely blindfolded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco] Reference

Out of the underwood springs the crested curassow; or, basking in the sun-lit glades, with outspread wings gleaming with metallic lustre, may be seen the beautiful turkey of Honduras.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rifle Rangers] Reference

I am also working on some arts and crafts projects, one of which is to make a paper mache bird (the red-billed curassow - an endangered species here) with the local young rangers group.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

In the interior of the country the splendid Honduras turkey, as well as the curassow, and several varieties of the wood-pigeon and dove, as also the partridge, quail, and snipe, exist in abundance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

The sariema (like the screamer and the curassow) ought to be introduced into our barnyards and on our lawns, at any rate in the Southern States; it is a good-looking, friendly, and attractive bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [VII. With a Mule Train Across Nhambiquara Land] Reference

Among the strange cries were those of the sapajous, the moans of the alouati monkeys, the howlings of jaguars and pumas, the shrieks and grunts of peccaries, the calls of the curassow, the paraka, and other fowls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Llanero A Story of War and Wild Life in Venezuela] Reference

"We will now return home with our prizes, and I hope that in a short time they will become tame," he observed; and having transferred the rope from its legs to its neck, he led it along, while I followed with the curassow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco] Reference

(the name we gave to the curassow), soon became a great favourite, and made Quacko and Ara very jealous.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco] Reference

Amazon Basin and the Guiana Shield, the Caquetá River's lowland forests shelter unique species such as the black curassow (Crax alector) and the brown wooly monkey (Lagothrix lagotricha.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conservation International - Feature Articles] Reference

It was, I found, a crested curassow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco] Reference

They are the crested curassow (Crax elector).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

Alagoas curassow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pernambuco coastal forests] Reference

(a coveted rodent), curassow and peccary.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference