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Grey-winged Trumpeter

Psophia crepitans

Not Evaluated · IUCN Red List

NENot EvaluatedFruitForestCavity nestLarge · 1.0 kg
Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans), photo 1
Photo: Erwin Neles from Saramacca, Surinam · CC BY 2.0
Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans), photo 2
Photo: SnowFire · CC BY 4.0
Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans), photo 3
Photo: SnowFire · CC BY 4.0
Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans), photo 4
Photo: jeanpaulboerekamps · CC0
Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans), photo 5
Photo: jeanpaulboerekamps · CC0
Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans), photo 6
Photo: jeanpaulboerekamps · CC0
Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans), photo 7
Photo: jeanpaulboerekamps · CC0
Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans), photo 8
Photo: jeanpaulboerekamps · CC0
Grey-winged Trumpeter (Psophia crepitans), photo 9
Photo: jeanpaulboerekamps · CC0

What the Grey-winged Trumpeter sounds like

Sonogram of the Grey-winged Trumpeter: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Call, song · Napo: Napo Galeras, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

ID tip

The grey-winged trumpeter is a chicken-like bird with a long neck and legs and a hump-backed profile. It is 45 to 52 centimetres (18 to 20 in) long. Two males weighed 0.82 and 1.02 kg (1.8 and 2.2 lb) and six females weighed between 0.79 and 1.06 kg (1.7 and 2.3 lb). The sexes are similar in appearance. Their stout, slightly decurved, bill is yellowish-green and their legs and feet greenish-olive. Their plumage is mostly black. The nominate subspecies has green or violet iridescence on the lower neck. Its inner wings and rump are ashy grey and the middle of the back is ochre to chestnut. Voice: All trumpeters are highly vocal. The grey-winged trumpeter's song is a low humming "wuh-wuh-wuh wuh wuh - -". Its alarm call is "loud, harsh 'GRAH' notes".

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

When to see the Grey-winged Trumpeter

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Grey-winged Trumpeter

Regular range

The map shades 8 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

French Guiana Ecuador Guyana Brazil Suriname Colombia Venezuela Peru

About the Grey-winged Trumpeter

The grey-winged trumpeter is a member of a small family of birds, the Psophiidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, northern Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, north of the Amazon River.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Pale-winged Trumpeter (Psophia leucoptera) Pale-winged TrumpeterPsophia leucopteraThe pale-winged trumpeter is a chicken-like bird with a long neck and legs and a hump-backed profile. Dark-winged Trumpeter (Psophia viridis) Dark-winged TrumpeterPsophia viridisThe dark-winged trumpeter is a chicken-like bird with a long neck and legs and a hump-backed profile.

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