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Piping Guan, Pantanal, Brazil (1 Viewer)

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André Weiss
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Hi

I'm rather confused with this Piping Guan. The dewlap is mainly red, however there is some blue on the throat.
Is it a Red-throated Piping Guan (Pipile cujubi), a Blue-throated (Pipile cumanensis) which is what the guide told us, or is it a intermediate form between the two?
The picture was taken near Porto Jofre in the Pantanal, at the boarder between Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul in July 2018.

André
 

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I find images on Google that look like your bird and are labelled Red and blue variously?

https://www.arkive.org/blue-throated-piping-guan/pipile-cumanensis/image-G140824.html

https://neotropical.birds.cornell.edu/Species-Account/nb/species/rtpgua1/multimedia/photos

The wattle, would seem to not be the clinching feature?

Edit: Seems like it may have been split by some. Race grayiI] becoming Grays Piping Guan

https://globally-threatened-bird-fo...threatened-and-p-cumanensis-as-least-concern/

which according to Wiki in relation to Blue-throated 'free interbreeding between this species (grayi) and the red-throated piping guan in eastern Bolivia, creating a "hybrid swarm",
 
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