Wattled Guan

It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The Wattled Guan is classified as Near Threatened (NT), is close to qualifying for or is likely to qualify for a threatened category in the near future.

The Wattled Guan (Aburria aburri) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family. It is found in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. It is threatened by habitat loss. References - 1. ^ BirdLife International (2008). Aburria aburri. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. More

The wattled guan is immediately recognisable by the long, slender, bright yellow and red wattle that hangs from the throat, a feature unique to this species, earning it its common name. The vivid colour of these distinctive wattles stands out against the primarily black plumage of the body. Juveniles are similar to adults, but with a less developed wattle (2). More

The wattled guan occupies wet mountain forest, forest borders, and tall secondary forest next to primary forest, often on steep mountainous terrain (2). The bird has been recorded at elevations of 500 to 2,500 m (2) (3). - The wattled guan forages for fruit mainly between the middle and upper storeys of fruiting trees, usually in pairs or groups of three (2). More

, 2005) concluding that the Wattled Guan belongs in the same genus as these and is a hypermelanistic piping-guan. Thus, Pipile became a junior synonym of Aburria, though this conclusion was not accepted by the South American Checklist Committee (Remsen et al., 2007). The same results also showed that the light-faced taxa pipile, cumanensis and cujubi are not, as was sometimes suggested, conspecific. However, free interbreeding between A. cujubi and A. More

(Chamaepetes goudotii) and Wattled Guan (Aburria aburri)) in the Central Andes of Colombia in the Santuario de Fauna y Flora Otun Quimbaya, Risaralda. The Cauca Guan is endemic to the Central and Western Colombian Andes, The Wattled Guan occurs from Venezuela to Peru, but is rare throughout its geographic distribution. The Sickle-winged Guan is distributed from Colombia to Bolivia and is fairly common along its distribution. More