Wednesday, September 03, 2014

Pipile pipile


This is the Piping Guan of Trinidad, a seriously endangered endemic. It has some wonderful vernacular names:

English: Blue-throated Piping Guan, Common Piping Guan, Trinidad piping guan, Trinidad Piping-Guan

Spanish: Pava de Trinidad

Estonian: paruk-pugalhoko

French: Pénélope à gorge bleue, Pénélope siffleuse, Pénélope siffleuse de la Trinité

Italian: Guan fischiatore di Trinidad

Japanese: torinidaadonakishakukei

Polish: Grdacz trinidadzki

Russian: Белошапочный гуан, Синегорлая абурри


A bird like this is worth saving!

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