Brown-winged Guan
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Brown-winged Guan ( Ortalis vetula ) |
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The Brown-winged Guan ( Ortalis vetula ) is a bird in the Hokkohühner family .
features
The 60 cm long brown-winged guuan has relatively long legs and a long neck and tail. The wings are rounded. The plumage is olive-brown on the top and yellow-brown on the other. The dark green tail has a white tip. In the male, the featherless gray patch of skin on the throat turns pink.
Occurrence
The distribution area extends along the Rio Grande from South Texas over Mexico to the northwest of Costa Rica . It lives in forests, bush and chaparral thickets.
Way of life
The Brown-winged Guan in small groups of up to five animals searches for seeds, berries, buds and leaves in the thicket. The bird lives most of the time in trees and sometimes tries to get food hanging upside down. Typically the birds give a “croaking concert” at dawn and dusk. The group sleeps together in thickets; small fledglings sleep under the wing of a parent animal.
The nest is a small platform made of twigs that is built in the dense foliage about halfway up the trees. Three eggs are incubated for 30 days. The young birds can climb immediately after hatching and fly within a week; however, they are only independent of their parents when they are around three weeks old.
literature
- Colin Harrison & Alan Greensmith: Birds. Dorling Kindersly Limited, London 1993,2000, ISBN 3-831-00785-3 .
- Bryan Richard: Birds. Parragon, Bath, ISBN 1-405-45506-3 .
Web links
- animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu
- www.geometer.org
- Ortalis vetula in the endangered Red List species the IUCN 2008. Posted by: BirdLife International, 2008. Accessed on December 18 of 2008.
- Videos, photos and sound recordings on Ortalis vetula in the Internet Bird Collection
