The puna tinamou (''Tinamotis pentlandii'') also known as Pentland's tinamou, is a member of the most ancient groups of
bird
Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweig ...
families, the
tinamou
Tinamous () form an order of birds called Tinamiformes (), comprising a single family called Tinamidae (), divided into two distinct subfamilies, containing 46 species found in Mexico, Central America, and South America. The word "tinamou" come ...
s. This species is native to southern
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere at the northern tip of the continent. It can also be described as the sout ...
.
[Clements, J. (2007)] The binomial name of the species commemorates the Irish natural scientist
Joseph Barclay Pentland (1797–1873) by
Nicholas Aylward Vigors in 1837. The
IUCN list this species as
Least Concern
A least-concern species is a species that has been categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) as evaluated as not being a focus of species conservation because the specific species is still plentiful in the wild. T ...
,
with an occurrence range of .
[BirdLife International (2008)]
Taxonomy
This is a monotypic species.
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.
[Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)]
Description
The puna tinamou is approximately in length. Its upper parts are brown spotted with white, and its breast is blue-grey, and its belly is rufous. Its head is white with black streaks.
Distribution and habitat
The puna tinamou inhabits high-altitude grassland, and to a lesser extent, brushland
at altitude of subtropical and tropical regions.
Its range is
Peru
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, other_symbol = Great Seal of the State
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, northern
Bolivia, northern
Chile
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and northwestern
Argentina
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.
Footnotes
References
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External links
BirdLife Species FactsheetPuna Tinamou videoson the Internet Bird Collection
(for
Argentina
Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
,
Bolivia) with RangeMap
Photo-High Res--(Puna Tinamou and chicks)
puna tinamou
Birds of the Puna grassland
puna tinamou
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