Showing posts with label Black-fronted Piping Guan (Pipile jacutinga). Show all posts
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Black-fronted Piping Guan (Pipile jacutinga) Information

Black-fronted Piping Guan

The Black-fronted Piping Guan, Pipile jacutinga, is a bird in the chachalaca, guan and curassow family Cracidae. This species occurs in Atlantic Forests in south-eastern Brazil and adjacent Argentina and Paraguay. It has become quite rare in recent decades due to hunting and habitat destruction (BirdLife International 2004).

Black-fronted Piping Guan
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Black-fronted Piping Guan
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