Brown tinamou
| Brown tinamou | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Tinamiformes |
| Family: | Tinamidae |
| Subfamily: | Tinaminae |
| Genus: | Crypturellus |
| Species: | C. obsoletus |
| Binomial name | |
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Crypturellus obsoletus (Temminck, 1815) |
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| Sub-species | |
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C. o. obsoletus |
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C. o. obsoletus
(Temminck, 1815)
C. o. griseiventris
(Salvadori, 1895)
C. o. hypochraceus
(Miranda-Ribeiro, 1938)
C. o. punensis (Chubb, 1917)
C. o. traylori (Blake, 1961)
Traylor's Tinamou
C. o. ochraceiventris
(Stolzmann, 1926)
C. o. castaneus
(Sclater, 1858)
C. o. knoxi
(Phelps, 1976)
C. o. cerviniventris
(Sclater & Salvin, 1873)
The brown tinamou (Crypturellus obsoletus) is a brownish ground bird found in humid lowland and montane forest in tropical and subtropical South America.
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.
Its distribution is highly disjunct with the subspecies being distributed as follows:
Additionally, there are records from north Mato Grosso in Brazil, but it remains unclear which subspecies is involved. Most subspecies occur in highlands, but hypochraceus, griseiventris, and the southern populations of the nominate taxon occur in lowlands. It is uncommon to rare in most of its range, but commoner in southeastern Brazil, where it is the most frequently encountered member of its genus.
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