TINAMIFORMES

Argentin 1960Brazil 1995
Red-winged Tinamou
Rhynchotus rufescens
(Tinamidae)
Solitary Tinamou
Tinamus solitarius
(Tinamidae)


Tinamou inhabits the wet forest and grassy plain with the bird of the nature above the ground of Central and South America. It resemble pheasants in the whole with a fat figure. Length 14-42cm, 200g - 2.3kg in weight. A female is slightly bigger than the male and the bill is thin small and turns below. The nostril is not precocious through water. There are many seeds which the whole holds dark color spot and an obi in in brown / gray / lemon yellow in the color of the body. It is the male and female same color, but a female holds a slightly showy color basically.

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