Tinamou
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TINAMOU, the name given in Guiana to a certain bird, as stated in 1741 by P.
Tinamou
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Tinamou
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(tn´m), common name for a South American game bird related to the ostrich. It is protectively colored in browns and grays.
Tinamous (Order Tinamiformes) are ground dwelling birds. They are generally well camouflaged birds, with patterned plumage that ranges from light to dark brown or gray.
Brown Tinamou Crypturellus obsoletus
Described by: Temminck (1815)
Alternate common name(s): Traylor's Tinamou
Old scientific name(s): None known by website authors ...
Chilean Tinamou (Nothoprocta perdicaria)
Chilean name: Perdiz chilena
The Chilean Tinamou is a Chilean endemic distributed from north of Santiago to the Lake District. It is found in grassy clearings in scrub and at the edges of farmland.
Ostriches, emus, tinamous
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Emu ...
Male Tinamou Gets a Girl
Our bachelor male elegant crested tinamou gets a girl! They were slowly introduced in a secluded area and within two weeks they were together full-time. We hope that she will soon lay a clutch of shiny green eggs.
Little Tinamou - Crypturellus souri*
Undulated Tinamou - Crypturellus undulates*
Neotropic Cormorant - Phalacrocorax olivaceus
Anhinga - Anhinga anhinga
White Necked (Cocoi) Heron - Ardea cocoi
Snowy Egret - Egretta thula
Cattle Egret - Bubulcus ibis ...
Elegant Crested-Tinamou (Eudromia elegans)
Great Tinamou (Tinamus major)
Highland Tinamou (Nothocercus bonapertei)
Titmice / Tits ...
: Tinamous (Tinamidae) are a still living, primitive bird family that may be close to the ancestral group of ratites (flightless birds). Modern birds have a ridge down the center of the sternum. This is the ridge where the flight muscles are anchored.
This is a group of large, flightless birds that also includes the extinct elephant bird and moa and the extant ostrich, rhea, kiwi, and tinamou.
In a 2005 study that is likely to turn avian systematics upside down once again, the Neoaves, consisting of all living birds except the ratites, tinamous, waterfowl and Galliformes, were shown to be divided into two subgroups of uneven size.
Tinamous, ostrichlike birds found in South America, lay very shiny, emerald green eggs. Bluebirds and robins produce blue eggs. Emus have greenish-black eggs. Rheas lay creamy beige eggs.
Most parts of the former Gondwana have ratites, or did have until the fairly recent past. Their closest living relatives are the tinamous of South America.
or Hungarian species has been successfully introduced into parts of North America. In some parts of United States the name Partridge is misapplied to the ruffed grouse, the Bobwhite , and of the plume quail; in Europe and South American tinamou is ...
 See also: Flamingo, Pigeon, Stork, Crane, Pelican
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