White-winged Guan
Penelope albipennisTaczanowski, W, 1878
English (US) White-winged Guan
The White-winged Guan (Penelope albipennis) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Cracidae (Guans, Curassows, and Chachalacas) in the order Galliformes.
Range: dry forest of northwestern Peru (Tumbes, Piura and Lambayeque)Range summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Penelope albipennis
- Order
- Galliformes
- IUCN Red List
- Endangered
- English (US)
- White-winged Guan
- Described by
- Taczanowski, W, 1878
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- Described by
- Taczanowski, W, 1878
- Type locality
- Near Tumbez, Peru; type from Sta. Lucia.
- Original description
- Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1877, pt.4 p.746
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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