Endangered
White-winged Guan
Penelope albipennis
The white-winged guan is a bird in the chachalaca, guan and curassow family Cracidae.
Appearance
The white-winged guan has an average length of 85.2 cm (2.8 ft) and average weight of 1.6 kg (3.5 lb). It has blackish brown plumage overlain by a green gloss. Much of its forepart has short whitish or pale gray streaks.
Range and habitat
The white-winged guan is now found only in the departments of Lambayeque, Cajamarca, and Piura in northwestern Peru. It is confined to an area that is at most 190 km (120 mi) long and 40 km (25 mi) wide and is divided by a major road and its accompanying human settlement. The white-winged guan inhabits a very specialized landscape, small, forested ravines and nearby slopes on the west side of the Andes.
Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.
Diet and breeding
The white-winged guan is usually found in pairs or family groups, though several groups commonly will feed in one fruiting tree. Fruits of Ficus figs and Cordia lutea are the most important part of the diet because they are available during most of the year.
Their breeding season spans from November to May, a period that overlaps the resource-abundant rainy season.
In crisis
CITES lists this taxon on Appendix I. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.
White-winged Guan is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.
Sources
Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on White-winged Guan, Wikidata item Q687020. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.
