Black Guan

• The male produces a whirring with its wings during courtship: it launches into a short, descending flight, beating its primaries so that they generate a mechanical drumming, a sound that does not come from the throat.
• Its cobalt-blue facial skin and red legs contrast with its black plumage and make it unmistakable in the cloud forest.
• It is one of the main dispersers of large seeds in the Costa Rican cloud forest, and its disappearance from a stand measurably reduces the regeneration of several tree species.

Skeleton type

Vertebrate - internal bony skeleton (bird)

Habitat and environment

Montane cloud forest of Costa Rica and western Panama, between 1,000 and 3,000 metres

Sexual maturity

2 years

Gestation / incubation

28 days of incubation

Litter / clutch size

2 eggs

Sources consulted: https://www.iucnredlist.org/ | https://animaldiversity.org/ | https://es.wikipedia.org/

The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.