Black Guan

The Black Guan is a species of bird in the Cracidae family. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss.

The Black 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.

Black guans are one of the few cracids known to live singly outside the breeding season and are found in pairs only during the breeding season. The black guan's wing sound is quite different compared to the crested guan. When this bird, in its long glide, has reached the middle of a clearing, it beats its wings rapidly over a short stretch in such a way that the longer feathers alternately separate and beat together. More

The Black Guan (Chamaepetes unicolor) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family. It is found in Costa Rica and Panama. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montanes. It is threatened by habitat loss. Monteverde, Costa Rica References - * BirdLife International 2004. Chamaepetes unicolor. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007. More

There is the Black Guan (Chamaepetes unicolor), in your basic black, which is also the color of the Crested Guan's body. And then there are, among others, the Red-faced Guan, Rusty-margined Guan, Band-tailed Guan, Bearded Guan, Blue-throated Piping-Guan, White-winged Guan, Dusky-legged Guan, Wattled Guan, Sickle-winged Guan, Horned Guan, Andean Guan, Highland Guan-you get the picture. All guans are turkey-like creatures who have been a useful link in the food chain of the human residents of Central America. More

Black Guan is by no means common at Cerro Gaital (I've yet to see it), but is found with some regularity. I suspect it will be found somewhere around Altos del Maria; any such sighting would be a first for Panam More

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Black Guan elsewhere on the web * Wikipedia * http://www.itis.gov/... Edit and Show details Add or delete facts, download data in JSON or RDF formats, and explore topic metadata. Freebase Logo What is Freebase? Freebase is a huge collection of facts, built by people like you. Freebase connects facts in ways other sites can't, giving you new ways to explore millions of subjects. More