The bird family of Feldman Ecopark has new residents from the rainforests of South and Central America – the great curassows (Crax rubra).
A couple of the great curassows was given to the Regional Landscape Park by a private person, Feldman Ecopark’s deputy director of zootechnics Valeriia Ivashchenko informed. According to her words, the exotic birds are currently in quarantine, and it will be possible to see them in the open enclosure in spring. “The curassows currently get used to our keepers. The birds are very active and very beautiful. They adapt to the new place, but are still afraid of strange people,” Valeriia Ivashchenko tells.
The family of curassows, Cracidae or Crax rubra, belongs to Galliformes and consists of nearly 50 species living in South America and in the tropical area of the northern continent. These birds are the single representatives of their order, which prefer to live in trees, where they find food and nest in couples. The great curassows are the largest representatives of Cracidae. Males weigh up to 7kg. The great curassows are comfortable in zoos, where they breed normally. Unfortunately, the number of the great curassows in the nature reduces constantly as the result of the reduction of rainforests and hunting. In this connection, these birds are protected by law in many countries.
It should be reminded that the collection of Feldman Ecopark includes over 1,500 birds.
