Variegated Tinamou

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Variegated Tinamou

Conservation status
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Tinamiformes
Family: Tinamidae
Genus: Crypturellus
Species: C. variegatus
Binomial name
Crypturellus variegatus
Gmelin, 1789

The Variegated Tinamou Crypturellus variegatus a type of Tinamou commonly found in lowland of moist forest in subtropical and tropical region at altitude 100 to 1,300m. This species ranges from eastern Ecuador and Peru, southern parts of Colombia and Venezuela, the Guianas (Suriname, Guyana & French Guiana) and amazonian Brazil to south-eastern Brazil.

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The Variegated Tinamou is approximately 33 cm in length. Its upper back rufous, lower back and wings black with conspicuous yellowish bands. Its throat white, neck and upper breast bright rufous, lower breast and belly buffish-white, flanks tinged cinnamon and lightly barred dusky. Its crown and sides of head blackish with bill yellowish, legs greenish to yellowish-brown. It has a wailing whistle.

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