Trinidad Piping-Guan

Pipile pipile

Critically Endangered

The Trinidad Piping-Guan is an arboreal cracid of the Northern Range of Trinidad. 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

Trinidad Piping-Guan Range — The Northern Range of Trinidad

Population

≈ 150–330

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