White-throated Piping-guan Pipile grayi

White-throated Piping-guan Pipile grayi
(aka Blue-throated Piping-guan Pipile cumanensis grayi)

Brazilian name: jacutinga-de-garganta-branca

Pantanal, Mato Grosso, Brazil
December 2006

The White-throated Piping Guan is distributed in the south-west of the Amazon Basin in north-east Bolivia and the Pantanal. It is found in forest and cerrado woodland.

The colour of the dewlap and bare facial skin varies from pale blue to almost white. The white crest reaching further down the nape and the more prominent white wing patch distinguishes it from the Blue-throated Piping-guan P. cumanensis.

It feeds on fruits and flowers and is rarely seen on the ground.

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