Wattled Guan (Aburria aburri)

Identification & Behavior: ~77.5 cm (30. 5 in). The Wattled Guan is black with a bluish bill, yellow legs, and a conspicuous yellow wattle hanging from a reddish throat. No other large Guan in this species’ range is uniformly black. The Wattled Guan generally favor the mid-canopy of humid montane forest. Pairs or individuals birds are rather retiring and seldom perch in exposed branches in forest edges. It may overlap with the more confident and visible Blue-throated Piping Guan.

Status: The Wattled Guan is rare throughout its narrow elevational band within elevations ranging from 650 to 2200 m on the eastern side of the Andes. Even rarer and perhaps extirpated in humid forest of extreme northwest Peru, in the department of Cajamarca.

Name in Spanish: Pava Carunculada.

Sub-species: Wattled Guan (Aburria aburri) Lesson, 1828.

Meaning of Name: Aburria= Colombian Amerindian onomatopoeic name for this bird. aburri: related to Aburria.

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