Tinamous

Order: Tinamiformes

Family: Tinamidae

47 species

HABITAT AND RANGE:

Mexico to Patagonia. Ground birds in heavy jungle, scrub, grasslands, alpine slopes

DESCRIPTION:

Sternum keeled with deep lateral fenestra; stout legs with hallux elevated or lacking; plumage brownish, barred, streaked or mottled; bills like those of rails

FOOD:

BREEDING:

1-12 glossy eggs; sequentially polyandrous and polygynous; males incubate and care for nidifugous young

SOUNDS:

Huayco Tinamou Rhynchotus maculicollis calling

Little Tinamou Crypturellus soui calling

Brown Tinamou Crypturellus obsoletus calling

Undulated Tinamou Crypturellus undulatus calling

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RECENT LITERATURE:

Ausio, J., J. T. Soley, W. Burger, J. D. Lewis, D. Barreda, and K. M. Cheng. 1999. The histidine-rich protamine from ostrich and tinamou sperm. A link between reptile and bird protamines. Biochemistry. 38 (1): 180-184.

van-Tuinen, M., C. G Sibley,  and S. B. Hedges. 1998. Phylogeny and biogeography of ratite birds inferred from DNA sequence of the mitochondrial ribosomal genes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 15 (4): 370-376.Sonez-Maria-Cristina.

Von, L. I. 1997. Ultrastructural identification of pituitary cells in Nothura maculosa (Tinamidae. Temminck, 1815). Biocell. 21 (2): 103-114.

Zweers, G. A., B. J. C Vanden, and H. Berkhoudt. 1997. Evolutionary patterns of avian trophic diversification. Zoology (Jena). 100 (1-2): 25-57.

Ordano, M., and A. Bosisio. 1997.  Historical records of threatened and near threatened Argentinian birds from Museo Provincial de Ciencias Naturales "Florentino Ameghino" of Santa Fe, Argentina. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 117 (1): 77-79.

Ericson, P. G. P.,  and L. A. Amarilla. 1997. First observations and new distributional data for birds in Paraguay. [Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club. 117 (1): 60-67.

Maijer, S. 1996. Distinctive song of highland form maculicollis of the red-winged tinamou (Rynchotus rufescens): Evidence for species rank. Auk. 113 (3): 695-697.

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