Andean Tinamou

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Andean Tinamou

Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Tinamiformes
Family:	Tinamidae
Genus:	Nothoprocta
Species:	N. pentlandii

Binomial name

Nothoprocta pentlandii
(Gray, 1867)

The Andean Tinamou, Nothoprocta pentlandii is a member of the most ancient groups of bird families, the tinamous. The species is commonly found in high altitude shrubland habitats in subtropical and tropical regions up to 800 to 4,100 m altitude. This species is found in Andes ranges from Ecuador to northern Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina in South America.

The binomial name commemorates the Irish traveller Joseph Barclay Pentland (1797-1873) by George Robert Gray in 1867.

1 Subspecies
2 Characteristics
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Subspecies

The Andean Tinamou has seven subspecies as follows:

Nominate race Nothoprocta pentlandii pentlandii occurs from Bolivia to north-west Argentina
Nothoprocta pentlandii ambigua occurs in southern Ecuador
Nothoprocta pentlandii oustaleti occurs in southern Ecuador and north-west Peru
Nothoprocta pentlandii niethammeri occurs on the central Peruvian coast
Nothoprocta pentlandii fulvescens occurs in south-east Peru
Nothoprocta pentlandii doeringi occurs in central Argentina
Nothoprocta pentlandii mendozae occurs in west-central Argentina

[edit] Characteristics

The Andean Tinamou is approximately 27 cm in length. Its upperparts are greyish-brown to olive brown barred and streaked with black and white. Its breast grey spotted with white or buff, belly buffy or whitish with crown blackish, sides of head and throat mottled greyish. Its legs yellowish.

[edit] References

BirdLife International (2004). Nothoprocta pentlandii. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 11 May 2006. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern