This large guan is about 67–75 cm long and feeds on fruit in Brazilian forests. A field paper describes three separated populations that remain in different parts of central Brazil.
It is about 67–75 cm long and is recorded at about 1.2 kg in weight.
Chestnut-bellied Guans use forests and sandy riverbanks in Brazil’s Cantão region.
A2009 report found them regularly across Cantão State Park, but scarce in surrounding forest remnants isolated by pasture.
The authors also identified intensive use of riverbanks by tourists and fishers as a conservation concern.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.
The2009 Cantão study identified forest loss and fragmentation, hunting and intensive riverbank tourism as concerns. Forest remnants and foraging riverbanks are conservation priorities.