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Penelope perspicax (Cauca Guan)

Wikipedia Abstract

The Cauca guan (Penelope perspicax) is a bird in the chachalaca, guan and curassow family Cracidae. This species occurs on the west slopes of the West and Central Andes of Colombia. These are large birds, 76 cm in length, and similar in general appearance to turkeys, with thin necks and small heads. They are forest birds, and the nest is built in a tree. This bird has drab plumage, with a red dewlap. It is dull brownish-grey, with mainly chestnut rear parts and tail. It has heavily whitish-scaled feather edges from head to mantle and breast.
View Wikipedia Record: Penelope perspicax

Endangered Species

Status: Vulnerable
View IUCN Record: Penelope perspicax

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
1
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
42
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 3.12901
EDGE Score: 3.49748
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.646 lbs (1.20 kg)
Birth Weight [2]  62 grams
Female Weight [2]  3.858 lbs (1.75 kg)
Forages - Canopy [3]  20 %
Forages - Mid-High [3]  80 %
Clutch Size [4]  2
Incubation [2]  26 days
Snout to Vent Length [2]  31 inches (79 cm)

Ecoregions

Name Countries Ecozone Biome Species Report Climate Land
Use
Cauca Valley montane forests Colombia Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests
Magdalena Valley montane forests Colombia Neotropic Tropical and Subtropical Moist Broadleaf Forests

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Reserva Natural Tambito   Colombia      

Important Bird Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela Yes

Prey / Diet

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 4Conserving Cracids: The most Threatened Family of Birds in the Americas, Edited by Daniel M. Brooks, Miscellaneous Publications of The Houston Museum of Natural Science, Number 6 (2006)
♦ 5DIET OF THE CAUCA GUAN: EXPLOITATION OF A NOVEL FOOD SOURCE IN TIMES OF SCARCITY, MARCIA C. MUÑOZ, GUSTAVO A. LONDOÑO, MARGARITA M. RIOS, and GUSTAVO H. KATTAN, The Condor 109:841–851 (2007)
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0