Trinidad Piping-Guan
Pipile pipile
- Critically endangered
- Card rarity: Legendary
- Birds
The Trinidad piping guan locally known as the pawi, is a bird in the chachalaca, guan and curassow family Cracidae, endemic to the island of Trinidad. It is a large bird, somewhat resembling a turkey in appearance, and research has shown that its nearest living relative is the blue-throated piping guan from South America. It is a mainly arboreal species feeding mostly on fruit, but also on flowers and leaves. At one time abundant, it has declined in numbers and been extirpated from much of its natural range and the International Union for Conservation of Nature has rated the bird as "critically endangered".
Classification
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Galliformes
- Family
- Cracidae
- Genus
- Pipile