Blue-throated Piping-guan (Pipile cumanensis)

Other Names (World)
Blue-throated Piping-Guan, Common Piping-Guan, White-headed Piping-Guan (cumanensis), Gray's Piping-Guan (grayi), Blue-throated Piping Guan

Family
Cracidae (Guans, Chachalacas, Curassows)

Size
60 - 69 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Jacquin, 1784)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest, swamp forest, dry savanna. Also, inland wetlands, subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From sea-level - 1,100 m.

Range (Guide)

Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Venezuela.

Rarity Status
Currently this species is not classified as a rarity in this country OR information has not been updated.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (25)...)

Blue-throated Piping Guan (Pipile cumanensis) [XC518110]
by Mauricio \u00c1lvarez-Rebolledo (Colecci\u00f3n de Sonidos Ambientales - Instituto Humboldt) from PNN Chiribiquete, mesay Alto, Colombia (?)

Blue-throated Piping Guan (Pipile cumanensis) [XC855754]
by Mauricio \u00c1lvarez-Rebolledo (Colecci\u00f3n de Sonidos Ambientales - Instituto Humboldt) from RN La Isla Escondida, Colombia (song)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Trinidad Piping-guan (Pipile pipile) and Red-throated Piping-guan (Pipile cujubi). All have often been treated as conspecific. Some authors also include the more distinct Black-fronted Piping-guan (Pipile jacutinga).

Subspecies grayi has been considered a separate species, but intergrades with nominate in south-eastern Peru. Subspecies nattereri of Red-throated Piping-guan (Pipile cujubi) has been considered subspecies of Blue-throated Piping-guan (Pipile cumanensis), but is sympatric with subspecies grayi of Blue-throated Piping-guan (Pipile cumanensis) in southern Mato Grosso.

Has hybridized with Chaco Chachalaca (Ortalis canicollis) in captivity.

The following 2 subspecies are recognised:

cumanensis (Jacquin, 1784) - The Guianas, Venezuela south of R Orinoco, north-western Brazil and Amazonian parts of central and eastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador and eastern Peru.
grayi (Pelzeln, 1870) - South-eastern Peru, Amazonian north-central and eastern Bolivia, south-western Brazil and north-eastern Paraguay. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, White-throated Piping-guan (Pipile grayi).

References
See References.

Files:

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