Colombian Tinamou
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Not recognized (IUCN 3.1)
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| Crypturellus erythropus columbianus (Salvadori, 1895) |
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Crypturellus columbianus (Salvadori, 1895) |
The Colombian Tinamou, Crypturellus columbianus, is a tinamou, recorded to be found in Cordoba, Sucre, Bolivar, and Antioquia, north-central Colombia. Little is known about them. However, it is recorded that Colombian Tinamou occurs in lowland moist forest and shrubland at subtropical/tropical regions at altitude up to 600 m.
It is sometimes treated as a distinct species, and sometimes as a subspecies of the Red-legged Tinamou. The SACC rejected a proposal to elevate it to species status, arguing that the presently available data fail to support the split. BirdLife International followed this treatment; hence the Colombian Tinamou will be dropped from the 2007 IUCN Red List.[1]
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[edit] Description
The Colombian Tinamou is approximately 30 cm in length. It is a medium-sized brownish tinamou. Thy have a plain brown crown and white throat. Its upperparts are also plain brown with no barring, white notches in the secondaries and wing coverts. Its underparts are paler in brown with dark barring near vent. The legs are pinkish-red in color. The Colombian Tinamou looks very similar to the Red-legged Tinamou (Crypturellus erythropus), however the Colombian Tinamou is darker and has stronger barring on its upper- and underparts. Its voice is probably also similar to that of the Red-legged Tinamou.
[edit] Status and conservation
Its population is threatened by extensive destruction of its lowland forests caused by deforestation. In recent years, there has been a very rapid loss of habitat in the northern part of the Cordillera Central and the Serranía de San Lucas, where the remaining populations are concentrated. It was uplisted to Endangered (EN A2c+3c) by the IUCN in 2004, after being assessed as Near Threatened since 1988, but as mentioned above it will not be on the 2007 Red List.
Currently no conservation measures are known. It has been proposed to survey to determine its precise distribution and ecological requirements, and find suitable habitat to protect these birds.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ See SACC (2006), BirdLife International (2007).
[edit] References
- BirdLife International (2004). Crypturellus columbianus. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCN 2006. Retrieved on 27 May 2007. Database entry includes a brief justification why this bird is endangered
- BirdLife International (2007): Crypturellus saltuarius BirdLife Species Factsheet. Retrieved 2007-AUG-26.
- South American Classification Committee (2006): Proposals for the taxonomic treatment of Red-legged Tinamou Crypturellus erythropus. Retrieved 2007-AUG-26.
