Great Tinamou
Tinamus major - Grand Tinamou
Systematics
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Order:
Tinamiformes
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Family:
Tinamidés
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Genus:
Tinamus
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Species:
major
Descriptor
Biometrics
- Size: 46 cm
- Wingspan: -
- Weight: 700 à 1240 g
Geographic range
Identification
Great Tinamou (Tinamus major) is a species of bird in the Tinamidae family.
Subspecific information 12 subspecies
- Tinamus major major (e Venezuela to ne Brazil)
- Tinamus major robustus (se Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras)
- Tinamus major percautus (s Mexico, n Guatemala, Belize)
- Tinamus major fuscipennis (n Nicaragua to w Panama)
- Tinamus major brunneiventris (sc Panama)
- Tinamus major castaneiceps (sw Costa Rica, w Panama)
- Tinamus major saturatus (e Panama, nw Colombia)
- Tinamus major zuliensis (ne Colombia, n Venezuela)
- Tinamus major latifrons (sw Colombia, w Ecuador)
- Tinamus major serratus (nw Brazil)
- Tinamus major olivascens (Amazonian Brazil)
- Tinamus major peruvianus (se Colombia to Bolivia and w Brazil)
Foreign names
- Grand Tinamou,
- Tinamú oliváceo,
- tinamu-grande,
- Großtinamu,
- nagy tinamu,
- Grote Tinamoe,
- Tinamo grosso,
- större tinamo,
- Stortinamu,
- tinama veľká,
- tinama větší,
- Stor Tinamu,
- isotinami,
- tinamú olivaci,
- kusacz duży,
- Большой тинаму,
- オオシギダチョウ,
- 大䳍,
- 大(共鳥),
Habitat
Forest : Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland, Subtropical/Tropical Swamp ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Subtropical/Tropical Heavily Degraded Former Forest
Threats - protection
IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
in the Wild
Near
threatened
threatened
Not
evaluated
evaluated
EX
EW
CR
EN
VU
NT
LC
NE
Sources of information
- Birds of Venezuela, Steven L. Hilty
- Birds of Colombia, Steven L. Hilty and William L. Brown
- Vol. 1 - Handbook of the Birds of the World, Josep del Hoyo-Andrew Elliot-Jordi Sargatal
- ARKive, Christopher Parsons
- Avibase, Lepage Denis
- Wikipédia, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
- IOC World Bird List (v14.1), Gill, F and D Donsker (Eds). 2024-04-18.
Other sources of interest
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