Cauca Guan (Penelope perspicax)
About the Cauca Guan
The Cauca guan (Penelope perspicax) is a bird in the chachalaca, guan and curassow family, Cracidae. It is a large guan, and like most guans leads a mostly arboreal life in humid forests, where it forages for fruit and leaves. The Cauca guan is endemic to Colombia's Cauca River valley. In Spanish the bird is called pava caucana. The bird was first formally described in 1911 by the American ornithologist Outram Bangs, based on the type specimen collected on 5 June 1908 by Mervin G. Palmer at San Luis in the Bitaco Valley of western Colombia. All four of the major taxonomic authorities recognize Cauca guan as a species.
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We only publish recordings we may use commercially, because this site is supported by ads. xeno-canto lists 57 recordings for this species: 46 CC BY-NC-SA · 11 CC BY-NC-ND. None of them permits commercial use, so there is no player here — the page is kept as a profile so the bird is not missing from the guide.
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Listed as recorded in Colombia in the xeno-canto catalogue.
Related species you can hear
- Andean GuanPenelope montagniirecording
- Bearded GuanPenelope barbatarecording
This species has no recording here yet — these relatives do, so you can hear what the family sounds like.