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Guan


Guan
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Copyright: Raimundo Mesquita (mesquens) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Note Writer [C: 168 W: 9 N: 287] (2073)
Genre: Animals
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2010-08-28
Categories: Birds
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC LZ7
Exposure: f/4.5, 1/80 seconds
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Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2010-08-28 12:54
Viewed: 3600
Points: 8
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Spix's Guan (Penelope jacquacu) is a species of bird in the Cracidae family. It is found in Bolivia,Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, and Venezuela. Its natural habitat is subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests. Its estimated global range is approximately 5,000,000 km² and is common in at least parts of this range. It is therefore considered a least concern species by theIUCN.[1]


Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Chordata
Class:
Aves
Order:
Galliformes
Family:
Cracidae
Genus:
Penelope
Species:
P. jacquacu
Binomial name
Penelope jacquacu
Spix, 1825
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Hi Raimundo,
Tell me a bit about this shot. Captive bird, or did you just shoot it in the bush?

In any event, given the blackish-grey of the culottes (i.e. the tibiotarsal feathering - in jacquacu the culottes are a sort of chocolate brown), the small zone below the culottes (which corresponds to the back of the ankle in humans - i.e., here we can see the glabrous zone of the proximal tarsometatarsus) where we can see that the tarsometatarsus appears to be grey (not the pale red of jacquacu), the evident supercilium (good for race bronzina of P. obscura - that ranges here naturally), I would tend to think that this is Penelope obscura bronzina (Dusky-legged Guan).

hello Raimundo, my neighbour
very nice capture of lovely Spix's Guan on natural habitat. focus, POV and composition very nice. also timing and colors very nice. thanks for sharing, best wishes
Ahmet

Hi Raimundo,
Composition with beautiful natural environment, technically very good capture,serious photographing as always.
TFS
Anil Purohit

Hello Raimundo,

A very attractive image of this dramatic-looking bird. You've done a nice job of catching it while it goes about its daily business.

John

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