Many of the birds in the Chiquibul Forest are threatened by poaching for bushmeat or illegal wildlife trade and by deforestation from slash and burn agriculture and illegal logging. Below are the profiles of the most threatened birds in the Chiquibul.
Orange-breasted Falcon Wildlife Bits9 |
Scarlet Macaw Wildlife Bits8 |
Ocellated Turkey Wildlife Bits11 |
Great Curassow*
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*Photo Credits:
Great Curassow: By Arthur Chapman [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons