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title: "Black-fronted Piping-Guan"
description: "Pipile jacutinga — Birds. The black-fronted piping guan (Pipile jacutinga) or jacutinga in Brazilian Portuguese is a bird in the chachalaca, guan, and curassow family Cracidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/black-fronted-piping-guan
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Black-fronted Piping-Guan

> Pipile jacutinga — Birds. The black-fronted piping guan (Pipile jacutinga) or jacutinga in Brazilian Portuguese is a  bird in the chachalaca, guan, and curassow family Cracidae.

- Scientific name: *Pipile jacutinga*
- Category: `birds` (Birds)
- Habitats: `forest` (Forest)
- iNaturalist observations: 714
- Wikidata: [Q944945](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q944945)
- iNaturalist taxon: [2109](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/2109)

## Names

- en: Black-fronted Piping-Guan
- de: Schwarzmaskenguan
- es: Yacutinga
- fr: Pénélope à front noir
- nl: Zwartmaskergoean
- pt: Jacutinga
- pl: Grdacz czarnoczelny

## Countries with the most observations

BR (289), AR (252)

## Summary

The black-fronted piping guan (Pipile jacutinga) or jacutinga in Brazilian Portuguese is a  bird in the chachalaca, guan, and curassow family Cracidae. It is native to the Serra do Mar coastal forests, Paraguay and northeastern Argentina.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-fronted_piping_guan

## Photo

![Black-fronted Piping-Guan](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/black-fronted-piping-guan/medium.jpg)

Photo: Hugo Hulsberg · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/2109

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/black-fronted-piping-guan?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).