| Rhynchotus | |
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| Red-winged tinamou, Rhynchotus rufescens | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Order: | Tinamiformes |
| Family: | Tinamidae |
| Subfamily: | Nothurinae |
| Genus: | Rhynchotus Spix, 1825 |
| Type species | |
| Tinamus rufescens1 Temminck, 1815
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| Species | |
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Rhynchotus rufescens | |
Rhynchotus is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises two members of this South American family.
Taxonomy
Tinamous have evolved from ratites and are the only extant ratites that fly, and are the closest to the ancestral flying ratites.2
Species
The species are:
| Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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| red-winged tinamou
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Rhynchotus rufescens (Temminck, 1815) |
Northern and central Argentina, Brazil, except the western portion, Paraguay, Colombia, and southeastern Peru,3 and possibly in Uruguay2
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Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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| huayco tinamou
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Rhynchotus maculicollis G.R. Gray, 1867 |
Andes of northwestern Argentina and Bolivia.3
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Size: Habitat: Diet: |
LC
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Footnotes
Footnotes
- "Tinamidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05.
- Davies, S. J. J. F. (2003)
- Clements, J. (2007)
References
References
- Brands, Sheila (Aug 14, 2008). "Systema Naturae 2000 / Classification, Genus Rhynchotus". Project: The Taxonomicon. Retrieved Feb 9, 2009.
- Clements, James (2007). The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World (6 ed.). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-4501-9.
- Davies, S.J.J.F. (2003). "Tinamous". In Hutchins, Michael (ed.). Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia. Vol. 8 Birds I Tinamous and Ratites to Hoatzins (2 ed.). Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Group. pp. 57–59, 64. ISBN 0-7876-5784-0.
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