Blue-billed Curassow

Crax alberti

The Blue-billed Curassow (Crax alberti) is a bird found in Colombia. Found in Colombia. It eats fruit and leaves and other plant parts. The IUCN Red List lists it as Critically Endangered.

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Scientific name	Crax alberti
Region	South America
Found in	Colombia

🏡 Where the Blue-billed Curassow lives

Found in Colombia.

🍽️ What it eats

🍎 Fruit90%
🌿 Leaves & plants10%

A rough guide to its diet over a year. Source: EltonTraits (Wilman et al. 2014).

Conservation status

LCNTVUENCREWEX

Critically EndangeredAlmost gone from the wild.

💡 It weighs about 2.8 kilograms. It mostly eats fruit.

Hear the Blue-billed Curassow

Recorded by Iván Lau (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), xeno-canto XC543900. Trimmed to a few seconds.

Questions about the Blue-billed Curassow

Where does the Blue-billed Curassow live?

The Blue-billed Curassow lives in Colombia. Found in Colombia.

What does the Blue-billed Curassow eat?

fruit (about 90%), leaves and other plant parts (about 10%). These are rough shares of its diet over a year, from the EltonTraits database.

Is the Blue-billed Curassow endangered?

Almost gone from the wild. Its IUCN Red List category is Critically Endangered.

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Sources: IUCN Red List (via Wikidata), EltonTraits 1.0 (Wilman et al. 2014), GBIF sightings for countries, Wikipedia. Last updated 2026-10-19.