#cracidae

[herpsandbirds]

Blue-throated Piping Guan (Pipile cumanensis), family Cracidae, order Galliformes, Poços de Caldas, Brazil

The wattle on the neck can be blue, black, purple, or gray.

photograph by Luis Claudio Nadal

[awkwardbirdsdreaming]

Bird #81 - great curassow (VU) [male] [reference image]

Curassows are large gamefowl (up to a meter in length!) in South America, often with funky hair and knobby bits on their beak. These rival roadrunners as some of my favourite creature designs in birds. Some day I'll have to do a female curassow, which are brown with black and white bars - I think they are prettier than the males, but solid black is just more fun to paint.

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[saritawolf]

Horned Guan (Oreophasis derbianus) - (c) SaritaWolf - please do not repost

[best-bird-tournament]

Guan (Penelopinae) subfamily

Which is the best bird?

Horned guan

Black guan

Wattled guan

Highland guan

Black-fronted piping guan

Chestnut-bellied guan

Voting ended onOct 6, 2025

[haveyouseenthisbirdpoll]

Have you seen a Horned guan (Oreophasis derbianus)?

Yes, in nature

No, but I have heard one in nature

Yes, in captivity

No, but I have heard one in captivity

I might have/I'm not sure

No, I've only heard of it/seen it in photos/taxidermy/etc

No, and I have never heard of this bird

Voting ended onMar 10

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[jojos-birdwatching-adventure]

also, anything for Loggins and Messina? I saw a post a while ago that made them both penguins and I thought that was adorable.

Cute! I would love to find that post of them as penguins.

Also they remind me of a Horned Guan, probably because of their hats…

[bugkeeping]

Plain Chachalaca (Ortalis vetula) 

Mission, TX

[chuck-wills-widow]

Plain Chachalaca (Ortalis vetula) November, Rio Grande Valley, TX USA

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