Subspecies
Genus | Species | subspecies | Region | Range |
Crypturellus | kerriae | LA | Panama, Colombia |
Genus
The tinamous of the genus Crypturellus are usually notoriously difficult to see. Most species of this family are polygamous, with the smaller males performing the domestic tasks and the eggs are beautifully coloured. Tinamous exhibit exclusive male parental care. This type of care is rarely found in birds and only in tinamous is present in all species of the order. In polygynandrous species, males accumulate eggs from several females in at least two different ways: in some species females form stable groups and cooperate to lay the clutch for a male, sometimes even laying replacement clutches together. In other species, multiple females lay eggs in a nest, but they
do not form associations or travel together before or after being attracted by the male.
Physical charateristics
Listen to the sound of Choco Tinamou
[audio:http://www.planetofbirds.com/MASTER/TINAMIFORMES/Tinamidae/sounds/Choco Tinamou.mp3]
Copyright remark: Most sounds derived from xeno-canto
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size min.: | 25 | cm | size max.: | 26 | cm |
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Range
Habitat
Reproduction
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Conservation
Vast areas of seemingly suitable habitat remain, but road construction, human settlement, timber extraction and mining are causing gradual reductions. The recent completion of a new road-bridge has made unprotected areas of coastal plain forest adjacent to Ensenada de Utria National Park accessible to settlement and associated threats. The Atrato valley, Colombia, is relatively accessible and, if the species occurs there, that population would probably be the most threatened owing to human settlement, and conversion to farmland and banana plantations. It is presumably hunted wherever humans are present. The completion of the Pan-American highway through Darien and the canalisation of the Truando and lower Atrato rivers, to make an inter-oceanic fairway, are currently on hold, but could have serious effects on the species.