English name ⁶

Black-throated huet-huet

Local names ⁶

Hued-hued / huet-huet / wedwed
Huehueta / huete

*Wedwed is an onomatopoeia of the bird's call but also means crazy in Mapundungun

General information ⁶

Found in southern/central Chile and adjacent western Argentina
Natural habitat is temperate forests
Two species can be found in Chile: Pteroptochos castaneus (Hued-hued castano) and P. tarnii (Hued-hued del sur)

Sources and Credits

1. (c) Josh Vandermeulen, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), uploaded by Josh Vandermeulen
2. (c) Opisska, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Black-throated_Huet-huet_argentina.jpg
3. (c) Gabriel Barrera Maffioletti, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hued_Hued_Casta%C3%B1o_VII,_Refugio_Cayala_28feb16.jpg
4. Joseph Smit , no known copyright restrictions (public domain), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HylactesCastaneusSmit.jpg
5. in Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pteroptochos_tarnii_1847.jpg
6. (c) Alice Roy-Bolduc, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA)

More Info

• iNat taxon page
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