Tinamus guttatus Gallineta Chica
Identification: 13.5" (34cm). 600g. Eyes brown; legs dull greenish. Med.-sized tinamou with spotted rear-parts. Crown sooty black, sides of head and neck cinnamon buff flecked black; back, wings, and tail dark brown thickly dotted buff to whitish and coarsely and inconspic. barred black; throat white, chest buffy brown turning buffy white on lower underparts; thighs and flanks barred dusky (often faint), under tail coverts dull rufous.
Sim. species: Looks like a small version of Great Tinamou with conspic. pale spotting on rearparts. Contrasting cap, throat, and spotting are the marks.
See Undulated, Variegated, Gray-legged, and Barred tinamous.
Voice: Song at San Carlos de Rfo Negro a slow, mournful, 2-noted whistle, whuuuUUU, uuuuuuaaaa (ca. 3.5 sec), 1st note stronger at end and barely separated from 2d; song of 2d bird (O?) sim. but higher pitched, a single, long whistle, weaker or with faint quaver in middle (suggests 2 notes) and last note rising slightly at end (C. Parrish recording).
Behavior: Sim. to others of genus. Four BC birds, late Mar-late Apr, Cerro Yapacana185.
Status and habitat: Floor of mature, humid lowland forest. Judging from no. of specimens in Coleccion Phelps (8 near San Fernando de Atabapo), at least locally fairly common.
Range: To 200m. W half of Amazonas from Rfo Si-papo and Cerro Yapacana s to Rfo Negro and Cerro de la Neblina. Se Colombia to n Bolivia and Amaz. Brazil.
Source: Simon Valdez
Source: Smithsonian Wild
Source: Smithsonian Wild
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