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Chamaepetes unicolor
These were about the size of small turkeys. Their legs were red also.
I saw them in the St Elena Cloud Forest. They were eating the the unfurling fronds of a tree fern.
BirdLife International 2010. Chamaepetes unicolor. 2010 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
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Thanks, Luis. These birds were actully a fair distance below us on a slope beside the trail.
I saw one once but not this close. Congrats auntnance123!
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