horned guan
oreophasis derbianus latin

The horned guan is much harder to see.

Horned Guan image; Article (Oil paintings)

Horned Guan (Spanish, Pavón)

They are aided by Fernando Gonzales-Garcia, who earned his M.A. in biology with three years' study of the horned guan.

Given that the basal relationships of the living cracids are not well resolved, the Horned Guan is often placed into a distinct subfamily, the Oreophasinae.

After breakfast, small groups formed for morning excursions to look for two of the most spectacular birds of El Triunfo, the resplendent quetzal and the horned guan.

The Horned Guan (Oreophasis derbianus) is a Pleistocene relic of the Cracidae family that persists today only in small fragments of its previous range.

Highly threatened species include Jaguar, Spider monkey, White-lipped peccary, Horned guan, Quetzal and Harpy Eagle.

The Horned Guan is not a true guan, but merely resembles these birds most in overall shape and color, whereas the horn is more reminiscent of the helmeted curassows.

The traditional groups - chachalacas, guans, and curassows - are verified as distinct clades, but the Horned Guan represents the sole survivor of a very distinct and ancient lineage.

The only member in monotypic genus Oreophasis, the Horned Guan is distributed in humid mountain forests of southeast Mexico-(Chiapas) and Guatemala of Central America.

There is also the peculiar Horned Guan (Oreophasis derbianus) which is not a true guan, but a very distinct and ancient cracid with no close living relatives (Pereira et al. 2002).

Due to ongoing habitat loss, small population size, limited range and hunting in some areas, the Horned Guan is evaluated as Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

The Horned Guan, Oreophasis derbianus is a large, approximately 85 cm long, turkey-like bird with glossed black upperparts plumage, red legs, white iris, yellow bill and a red horn on top of head.

In addition to that, the Mayans ate non-domesticated fowl including the curassow, crested guan, horned guan, chachalaca, and ocellated turkey, although it is unclear the extent to which edible eggs could have been obtained from these birds.

The logo, which represents a Horned Guan, was 'modernized' in 2006, due to the celebration of the 25th anniversary of Pronatura, keeping the Horned Guan, but giving it a more stylized image.

The Horned Guan (Oreophasis derbianus) is a Pleistocene relic of the Cracidae family that persists today only in small fragments of its previous range.

There is also the peculiar Horned Guan (Oreophasis derbianus) which is not a true guan, but a very distinct and ancient cracid with no close living relatives (Pereira et al. 2002).

The Horned Guan, Oreophasis derbianus is a large, approximately 85 cm long, turkey-like bird with glossed black upperparts plumage, red legs, white iris, yellow bill and a red horn on top of head.