A large bird found in Central and South America that is related to the chicken, known for its loud calls and preference for tree-dwelling.
From Nahuatl (Aztec language) 'quauhtli' (bird), which entered Spanish as 'guán' and then English in the 1600s through colonial contact with Mesoamerica.
Guans are sometimes called 'flying turkeys' because they're tree-dwelling cousins of turkeys, and Indigenous peoples of the Americas hunted them for food long before Europeans arrived.
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