Sickle-winged Guan

Chamaepetes goudotii (Lesson, RP, 1828)

Cracidae — Chachalacas, Curassows, Guans

Sickle-winged Guan, Chamaepetes goudotii, is a bird of the Cracidae family in South America, with a breeding range from Colombia to Bolivia. It lives in humid and wet forest, especially tall forest, and also uses forest edges and secondary growth. It is usually a bird of middle elevations, reaching 3,000 m in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, with Colombian, Peruvian and Bolivian populations occurring at different height bands. Its subspecies are spread along both slopes of the Andes and in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.

Order
Galliformes
Family
Cracidae — Chachalacas, Curassows, Guans
Breeding range
South America: Colombia to Bolivia
Sickle-winged Guan
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