Black-fronted Piping-Guan

Pipile jacutinga

Endangered

The Black-fronted Piping-Guan is an arboreal cracid of Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina. It usually keeps to forest canopy and edges, feeding heavily on fruit and helping move seeds through tropical and subtropical forests. Its conservation story is important, with habitat loss and hunting pressure making protected forest especially valuable.

Family

Cracidae

Group

Guans, Chachalacas, and Curassows

Range

Black-fronted Piping-Guan Range — Atlantic Forest of southeastern Brazil, eastern Paraguay, and northeastern Argentina

Population

≈ 1.5K–7K

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