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Guans
The medium-sized members of the Family Cracidae. The most diverse of the Cracids, comprising 24 species: 15 True Guans (Penelope), 5 Piping Guan and Wattled Guans (Aburria), 2 Sickle-winged Guans (Chamaepetes), and 2 monotypic taxa: Horned Guan (Oreophasis) and Highland Guan (Penelopina).
True Guans  

Cauca Guan
(Penelope perspicax)

White-winged Guan
(Penelope albipennis)

Baudo Guan
(Penelope ortoni)

Spix's Guan
(Penelope jacquacu)

Chestnut-bellied Guan
(Penelope ochrogaster)

White-crested Guan
(Penelope pileata)

White-browed Guan
(Penelope jacucaca)

Dusky-legged Guan
(Penelope obscura)

Bearded Guan
(Penelope barbata)

Andean Guan
(Penelope montagnii)
 
Piping & Wattled Guans  

Trinidad Piping Guan
(Aburria pipile)

Blue-throated Piping Guan
(Aburria cumanensis)

Red-throated Piping Guan
(Aburria cujubi)

Black-fronted Piping Guan
(Aburria jacutinga)

Wattled Guan
(Aburria aburri)
 
Sickle-winged Guans  

Sickle-winged Guan
(Chamaepetes goudotii)

Black Guan
(Chamaepetes unicolor)
Highland Guans  

Highland Guan
(Penelopina nigra)
 
Horned Guans  

Horned Guan
(Oreophasis derbianus)
 
 
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