Blue-throated Piping-Guan Gallery

Pipile cumanensis

The Birds of the World website introduces the Blue-throated Piping-Guan with this descriptive information:  The Blue-throated Piping-Guan is the most widespread species of piping-guan and is distributed from the Guianas across northern and western Amazonia, including much of the Guiana Shield. It inhabits a wide variety of forested habitats such as terra firme, várzea, semi-deciduous forest, cerrado woodland, and gallery forest. Like many cracids, this species is almost completely arboreal, and forages solitarily or in small groups in the canopy in search of fruiting trees. Piping-guans also are regularly observed visiting clay and salt licks, perhaps to supplement their diet. The Blue-throated Piping-Guan is easily separated from other species of piping-guan by its blue throat, and strikingly white facial skin and white crest. Its call is also distinctive, and is a very typical sound of the Amazonian predawn chorus.

I met my firstBlue-throated Piping-Guan  on the morning of Tuesday, August 23, 2023.  Our Jeff Parker Tour group was staying at Southwild’s Santa Tereza Lodge and I watched this bird from a boat on the Rio Sararé which is near the lodge.  For details of my Brazilian trip that include the sighting of this bird, look here.  Below are a couple of my photos of this unusual bird.