Reports from the Field

Pedro Scherer surveys and monitors the Black-fronted Piping Guan, Penelope jacutinga, in Brazil. Due to the rapid decline of this species throughout its range in the Coastal Atlantic Rainforest, the species was recognized in the Cracid CAMP as critical and in need of immediate field work.

Ongoing field work is being conducted by Birdlife International on the highland rufous-headed chachalaca, Ortalis erythroptera, in Ecuador.

image - White crested guan

White Crested Guan (Penelope pileata)

by Hilde Vercauteren

Field Report from Gere Scheres, Chairperson, European Endangerd Species Program, European Cracid TAG Introductory Report, July 1993:

"We observed the bird close to the city of Santarem in Brasil. Although, as in many parts south of the Rio Amazon, there is much deforestation, the information that the bird probably exists close to the west border of Rio Xingu extends his former known range, and gives hope that there might be more birds still in nature than we thought before."