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Black Guan

Chamaepetes unicolor

Photo by auntnance123
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Field Notes

Description:

These were about the size of small turkeys.
Their legs were red also.

Habitat:

I saw them in the St Elena Cloud Forest. They were eating the the unfurling fronds of a tree fern.

Notes:

BirdLife International 2010. Chamaepetes unicolor. 2010 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species

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Comments (3)
auntnance123
Thanks, Luis. These birds were actully a fair distance below us on a slope beside the trail.
LuisStevens
I saw one once but not this close. Congrats auntnance123!

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PublishedMarch 31, 2011

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