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: any of various large gregarious neotropical birds (family Cracidae) that are chiefly arboreal forest-dwellers and that somewhat resemble turkeys
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This image captures a quiet moment of connection between a young girl and a Spix's guan, a bird that despite its shy nature, finds a shared refuge with the inhabitants of this land.
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Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Ground-foraging birds like guans can still hear the frogs’ calls.
—Lakshmi Supriya, Science | AAAS, 26 Sep. 2017
Ziegler observes butterflies and damselflies and bees that never descend to the ground, and dozens of species of birds: barbets, paradise tanagers, scarlet macaws that arrive in pairs, and fat, piping guans, which look like elegant turkeys.
—National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2016
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Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
Ground-foraging birds like guans can still hear the frogs’ calls.
—Lakshmi Supriya, Science | AAAS, 26 Sep. 2017
Ziegler observes butterflies and damselflies and bees that never descend to the ground, and dozens of species of birds: barbets, paradise tanagers, scarlet macaws that arrive in pairs, and fat, piping guans, which look like elegant turkeys.
—National Geographic, 29 Sep. 2016
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“Guan.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guan. Accessed 23 Mar. 2025.
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