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Genus of birds From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Rhynchotus is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises two members of this South American family.
Rhynchotus | |
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Red-winged tinamou, Rhynchotus rufescens | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Class: | Aves |
Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
Order: | Tinamiformes |
Family: | Tinamidae |
Subfamily: | Nothurinae |
Genus: | Rhynchotus Spix, 1825 |
Type species | |
Tinamus rufescens[1] Temminck, 1815 | |
Species | |
Rhynchotus rufescens |
Tinamous have evolved from ratites and are the only extant ratites that fly, and are the closest to the ancestral flying ratites.[2]
The species are:
Common name | Scientific name and subspecies | Range | Size and ecology | IUCN status and estimated population |
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red-winged tinamou | Rhynchotus rufescens (Temminck, 1815) |
Northern and central Argentina, Brazil, except the western portion, Paraguay, Colombia, and southeastern Peru,[3] and possibly in Uruguay[2] |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
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huayco tinamou | Rhynchotus maculicollis G.R. Gray, 1867 |
Andes of northwestern Argentina and Bolivia.[3] |
Size: Habitat: Diet: |
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