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Blue-throated Piping Guan
Pipile cumanensis (Jacquin, 1784)
Cracidae — Chachalacas, Curassows, Guans
Blue-throated Piping Guan, Pipile cumanensis, is a guan in the Cracidae family, found in eastern Colombia to the Guianas, western Brazil and Peru. It is a bird of humid tropical forest in the Amazon Basin, and is usually close to rivers. The species has a long neck and tail, with a small head and slender neck. Its plumage is mostly blackish with a greenish blue sheen, while the forehead, crown and nape are white, along with white areas on the wings and breast.
- Order
- Galliformes
- Family
- Cracidae — Chachalacas, Curassows, Guans
- Breeding range
- South America: e Colombia to the Guianas, w Brazil and Peru
