Black Guan (Chamaepetes unicolor)

Other Names (World)
Black Guan, Black Sickle-winged Guan

Family
Cracidae (Guans, Chachalacas, Curassows)

Size
64 cm

First Described (Guide)
Salvin, 1867

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical montane moist forest. From 450 - 2,250 m.

Range (Guide)

Costa Rica (B) (NB), Panama (B) (NB).

Mountains of Costa Rica and Panama.

Population
Estimated population is unknown (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Mostly silent. In breeding season gives soft low piping calls at dawn. Also a low 'kowr' when startled and 'tsik tsik' uttered in alarm. Wings rattle when flying between trees.

Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (4)...)

Black Guan (Chamaepetes unicolor) [XC31699]
by Paul Driver from Sendero Los Quetzales, Chiriqui Province, Panama (wing snap)

Black Guan (Chamaepetes unicolor) [XC137743]
by Peter Boesman from Santa Elena Reserve, Guanacaste, Costa Rica (call, wing noise)

Subspecies
Forms superspecies with Sickle-winged Guan (Chamaepetes goudotii).

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

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