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.

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) [XC20752]
by Mauricio \u00c1lvarez Rebolledo (Colecci\u00f3n de Sonidos Ambientales - Instituto Humboldt) from Rio Azul - RC Amarakaeri (Madre de Dios), Peru (song, song (intense))

Blue-throated Piping Guan (Pipile cumanensis) [XC274923]
by Phillip Edwards from Orellana: 'Maxus' road km 37 (27 km SSE Pompeya), Ecuador (call, song, song-like calls of alarmed bird)

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:

JPG files for Blue-throated Piping-guan (Pipile cumanensis) - 10 files

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