Guan
Related Category: Vertebrate Zoology
see curassow.
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Curassow - common name for the largest members of an order of game birds called pigeon-toed fowls, which includes the white-crested guan and the rufous-bellied chachalaca, ...
Bearded Guan Penelope barbata
Described by: Chapman (1921)
Alternate common name(s): None known by website authors
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Like many guan species, the piping guan plays a very important role in the ecology of tropical forests. Its habit of eating fruits and seeds (and pooping out the remains) helps disperse the seeds of trees throughout the forest.
White-crested Guan (Penelope pileata)
A Brazilian endemic, the White-crested Guan is considered as a "Near Threatened" species.
No other piping-guan is found in its range, though the Gray's Piping-guan (Aburria cumanensis grayi) approaches it in Paraguay. This bird has a pale bluish pendulous wattle, a smaller wing patch, and an entirely naked white face and white forehead.
Horned Guan
Oreophasis derbianus
[sw Mexico & n Guatemala]
This huge near-mythical guan lives only in remote cloud forests atop extinct volcanoes; the bare vivid red horn is completely unique.
Piping Guan
Class: Aves
Status: IUCN: Least Concern; CITES: Not Listed;
Plush crested jay ...
Then we hiked down the trail to the location of a known Royal Flycatcher nest getting a fleeting look at a Spinx Guan. The nest hung over a small creek near a small shelter built to house a water pump.
One fair afternoon we came in view of the renowned Harbour of Whapati Guan, and already saw its curious beacon, which, being in form like a huge mounted cannon placed on the elevated crest of a great rock, produced a most striking effect.
Black-fronted piping-guan (Pipile jacutinga)
Cactus (Discocactus horstii)
Western barred bandicoot (Perameles bougainville)
Bornean orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus)
Mentawai langur (Presbytis potenziani)
Asian crested ibis (Nipponia nippon) ...
The Plain Chachalaca (Ortalis vetula) is member of the guan family which ranges from extreme south Texas southward to Costa Rica.
Like the Northern Pygmy-Owl, the Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl is a bold and ferocious daytime predator, sometimes attacking prey larger than itself, such as American Robins or young domestic fowl. There are even records of attacks on captive Guan, ...
The Black Death
Iowa Gold
Most Beautiful Birds Meme
Guan-emala
White-breasted Nuthatch Sitta carolinensis ...
 See also: Curassow, Pigeon, Duck, Petrel, Pheasant
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