Order: Galliformes | Family: Cracidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Southeast Peru
Status: The Blue-throated Piping Guan is a fairly common canopy dwelling bird of tall pristine floodplain and Terra Firme forests. A bird largely restricted to the lowland Amazonia below 700 m; although has been recorded, in some locations, at elevations of up to 1100 m. They can be temporarily common around trees bearing fruit.
Name in Spanish: Pava de Garganta Azul.
Sub-species: Blue-throated Piping-Guan (Pipile cumanensis cumanensis) Jacquin, 1784.
Meaning of Name: Pipile: L. Pipilare= to pipe or shirp. cumanensis= related or originating in Cumana, Venezuela’s capital city of the state of Sucre.
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 11/09/2014.