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The white-throated piping guan is 60 to 69 cm (24 to 27 in) long. The sexes are alike. Most of their plumage is blackish with a light olive to olive green gloss that is strongest on the shoulders, wings, and tail. Their forehead, crown, and nape are white, as are the fringes of their breast feathers. The crown feathers are hair-like and have black or brownish black shafts that show as streaks The outer wing coverts are also white and show as a large patch on the folded wing; the inner coverts have white spots. White to cobalt blue bare skin surrounds the dark reddish brown eye.
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When to see the White-throated Piping Guan
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 6 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is September, the month with the most records.
Where to see the White-throated Piping Guan
The map shades 3 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the White-throated Piping Guan
The white-throated piping guan is a near threatened species of bird in subfamily Penelopinae of family Cracidae, the guans, chachalacas, and curassows. It is found in Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, and Peru.
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Easily confused with
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.
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).
Red-throated Piping GuanPipile cujubiThe 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).
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