Trumpeter (bird)
The
trumpeters are a small family of
birds restricted to the forests of the
Amazon basin in
South America. They are named for the trumpeting call of the males.
The three species are dumpy birds with long necks and legs, and chicken-like bills. The plumage is soft, and they are weak fliers.
These are gregarious birds which nest on the ground, laying large clutches of white or greenish eggs. Their food is insects and fruit.
This group is related to the cranes; relationships are shown below:
Order: Gruiformes
- Gruidae: craness
- Aramidae: Limpkin
- Psophiidae:
- Grey-winged Trumpeter, Psophia crepitans
- Pale-winged Trumpeter, Psophia leucoptera
- Dark-winged Trumpeter, Psophia viridis
- Rallidae: railss and crakes
- Heliornithidae: finfoots and sungrebes
- Rhynochetidae: Kagu
- Eurypigidae: Sunbittern
- Cariamidae: seriemas
- Otidae: bustards