Grey-winged Trumpeter

About the Grey-winged Trumpeter

The grey-winged trumpeter (Psophia crepitans) is a member of a small family of birds, the Psophiidae. It is found in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, northern Peru, Suriname, and Venezuela, north of the Amazon River.

The grey-winged trumpeter was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under current the binomial name Psophia crepitans. Linnaeus based his account on the earlier description by the French naturalist Pierre Barrère. Linnaeus specified the type locality as "America meridionali" but this is now restricted to Cayenne in French Guiana based on Barrère. The specific epithet is Latin meaning "breaking wind" or "resounding".

The grey-winged trumpeter's taxonomy is unsettled. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC), the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society, and the Clements taxonomy recognise three subspecies:

P. c. crepitans Linnaeus, 1758 – Venezuela and southeast Colombia through the Guianas and north Brazil P. c. napensis Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1873 – southeast Colombia to northeast Peru and northwest Brazil P. c. ochroptera... Wikipedia →