Birds of Brazil

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Genus: Penelope (7 species, 16 worldwide)

Genus Penelope, Guans, are gamebirds in the Cracidae family are are larger than Chachalacas (in the range of 60 to 75 cm.). Guans are usually solitary or seen in family groups, unlike Chachalacas that form larger groups. And like most fowl consume both fruit and insects.


Spix's Guan
Spix's Guan (Penelope jacquacu jacquacu)
  		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.


White-browed Guan
White-browed Guan (Penelope jacucaca) Vulnerable ENDEMIC
Hotel Pedra dos Ventos, Quixadá, Ceará, Brazil   		   
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas)   © All Rights Reserved.
Local and uncommon in caatinga (arid scrub) habitats in northeastern Brazil.

Marail Guan
Marail Guan (Penelope marail jacupeba)
Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil   		   
Photograph by Anselmo d'Affonseca   © All Rights Reserved.


Dusky-legged Guan
Dusky-legged Guan (Penelope obscura obscura)
Iguazu National Park, Argentina   		   
Photograph by Tom Friedel   © All Rights Reserved.
Compere to Rusty-margined Guan.

Chestnut-bellied Guan
Chestnut-bellied Guan (Penelope ochrogaster) Vulnerable ENDEMIC
Brazil   		   
Photograph by Andreas Trepte     Copyright and usage info


White-crested Guan
White-crested Guan (Penelope pileata) Vulnerable ENDEMIC
Serra dos Carajás, Pará state, Brazil   		   
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas)   © All Rights Reserved.


Rusty-margined Guan
Rusty-margined Guan (Penelope superciliaris) Near Threatened
Piuval, Pantanal, Brazil   		   
Photograph by Bruno Conjeaud   © All Rights Reserved.
Smaller than the Dusky-legged Guan, and note rusty edges to wing and tail feathers, and rusty/rufous belly/vent (vs. brown). Also Rusty-margined has a light or white eyebrow (latin name superciliaris).

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