About the Red-throated Piping Guan
The red-throated piping guan is a species of bird in the chachalaca, guan, and curassow family Cracidae. It is found in Bolivia and Brazil.
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The red-throated piping guan is 69 to 76 cm (2.26 to 2.49 ft) long; P. c. nattereri weighs 1,100 to 1,300 g (2.4 to 2.9 lb). Both subspecies are black overall with black-and-white patches on the wings, a shaggy white crest, white speckles on the breast, bare pale blue skin on the face, and a red gular patch. The nominate subspecies is glossier than P. c. nattereri, with a blue sheen, and the white wing patches are smaller.
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Where the Red-throated Piping Guan lives
When to see the Red-throated Piping Guan
Peak activity in August · a variable species across most of its range
Easily confused with
Black-fronted Piping GuanPipile jacutingaThe black-fronted piping guan is 63.5 to 74 cm (2.08 to 2.43 ft) long and weighs 1,100 to 1,400 g (2.4 to 3.1 lb).
Trinidad Piping GuanPipile pipileThis is a medium-sized cracid, 60 cm in length, and similar in general appearance to a turkey, with a thin neck and small head.
Blue-throated Piping GuanPipile cumanensisThe blue-throated piping guan is described as "oddly 'prehistoric' (reptilian)" but "handsome".
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