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==Identification== | ==Identification== | ||
69 cm. Black-brown with faint purplish gloss, extensive white tips to wing-coverts, dark crest with white streaking, pale blue cere and basal part of bill, darker blue dewlap, red legs. | 69 cm. Black-brown with faint purplish gloss, extensive white tips to wing-coverts, dark crest with white streaking, pale blue cere and basal part of bill, darker blue dewlap, red legs. | ||
Revision as of 21:57, 1 March 2009
- Pipile pipile
Identification
69 cm. Black-brown with faint purplish gloss, extensive white tips to wing-coverts, dark crest with white streaking, pale blue cere and basal part of bill, darker blue dewlap, red legs.
Close to extinction.
Distribution
Taxonomy
Habitat
Canopy of remote lower and upper montane rainforest, steep, hilly areas with streams, sparse ground-cover.
Behaviour
Diet
The diet includes fruits and berries.
Breeding
The nest is built in a tree; 3 large white eggs are laid, the female alone incubating.
