Sickle-winged Guan

Sickle-winged Guan
Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Galliformes
Family: Cracidae
Genus: Chamaepetes
Species: C. goudotii
Binomial name
Chamaepetes goudotii
(Lesson, 1828)
Subspecies
  • C. g. fagani (Chubb, 1917)
  • C. g. rufiventris (Tschudi, 1843)
  • C. g. goudotii (Lesson, 1828)
  • C. g. sanctaemarthae (Chapman, 1912)
  • C. g. tschudii (Taczanowski, 1886)

The Sickle-winged Guan (Chamaepetes goudotii) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family.

It is found in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist montane forests. In Ecuador, it is noted that the guans from the Eastern slope, at 61-63.5 cm (24-25 in), were much larger than birds from the Western Andean slope, at 51-54.5 cm (20-22 in).

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