Blue-throated Piping Guan
The Blue-throated Piping Guan, Pipile cumanensis is a South American bird of the family Cracidae that is somewhat similar in appearance to the turkey.
Composition, range and habitat
There are two subspecies. P. cumanensis cumanensis (Jacquin, 1784) is found from the Guyanas, the Orinoco river in Venezuela, and southeastern Colombia south to northwestern (Amazonian) Brazil and southeastern Peru. There and possibly in northern Bolivia it intergrades with the bigger P. cumanensis grayi (Pelzeln, 1870) (Gray's Piping-guan), which continues through northern and central Bolivia, Mato Grosso State of Brazil, and northern and eastern Paraguay. This species occurs locally in forests: in Colombia and Venezuela, humid lowland forests (occasionally as high as 1000 meters) whether seasonally flooded or not, and riparian forests. It especially favors the edges where the forest meets open land or a river.
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| Blue-throated Piping Guan |
image source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/7326810@N08/
