Sickle-Winged Guan

In March 2023 I was with Judy and my granddaughter Ella in Tatama NNP in Colombia, staying at the Montezuma Rainforest Ecolodge, one of the best birding areas in Colombia and the world. Our first afternoon we went out on a walk up the road with our guide, Fernando Tapasco. Judy and Ella got bored with our walk and went back early. On my way back with Fernando we spotted quite a few sickle-winged guan up in the trees, probably four to eight. Before I could get my camera up for a photo they flew, but I got a very good look at them. It is one of the few birds I treat as a lifer that I do not have some sort of a photo of. The year before, outside Mindo, Ecuador, I'd seen several crested guans, so I was familiar with the guans. 

Illustration of sickle-winged guan from Birds of the World. 

Range of sickle-winged guan from Birds of the World.