Andean Tinamou
Nothoprocta pentlandii
Tan, heavily patterned tinamou with a down-curved bill. Found in montane scrub and grasslands, including around forest edges. Where it overlaps with the similar Curve-billed Tinamou, note Andean’s colder brown coloration and slightly reduced patterning below. Smaller than the similar Ornate Tinamou, with a larger bill. Often undetected until it flushes explosively from underfoot. Listen for its simple call, a high, piercing, rising whistle: “tuEEE!”
识别特征
The Andean tinamou is approximately 27 cm (11 in) in length. Its upper parts are greyish-brown to olive brown and barred with black and white. Its breast is grey and spotted with white or buff, its belly is buff or whitish and its crown is black, the sides of its head and throat are mottled grey, and its legs are yellow.
分类信息
All tinamou are from the family Tinamidae, and in the larger scheme are also ratites. Unlike other ratites, tinamous can fly, although in general, they are not strong fliers. All ratites evolved from prehistoric flying birds, and tinamous are the closest living relative of these birds. pentlandii is the Latin form of Pentland which commemorates the Irish Traveller Joseph Barclay Pentland.<p>The Andean Tinamou has seven subspecies as follows:
- 学名
- Nothoprocta pentlandii
- 命名信息
- (Gray, GR, 1867)
- 目
- Tinamiformes
- 科
- Tinamidae
- 属
- Nothoprocta
分布与栖息地
The Andean tinamou can be found in the Andes from southern Ecuador to central Chile, as well as in the Sierras de Córdoba in Argentina.<p>It prefers subtropical and tropical shrubland at 800 to 4,100 m (2,600–13,500 ft) altitude.
- 迁徙
- Resident species
行为
Migration pattern: Resident species.
保护状况
Population trend: stable.
- 种群趋势
- stable
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