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[[Image:TrinidadPipingGuan2.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Dave B Smith<br />Location: Grande Riviere [[Trinidad]], March 2009]] | [[Image:TrinidadPipingGuan2.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Photo by Dave B Smith<br />Location: Grande Riviere [[Trinidad]], March 2009]] | ||
;[[:Category:Pipile|Pipile]] pipile | ;[[:Category:Pipile|Pipile]] pipile | ||
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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 03:25, 2 August 2009
- Pipile pipile
Alternative name: Pawi
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
Trinidad where found only in north-eastern forests. Population is thought to be between 70 and 200 birds.
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
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.
