Great Tinamou

Tetrao major

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The Great Tinamou is classified as Least Concern. Does not qualify for a more at risk category. Widespread and abundant taxa are included in this category.

The Great Tinamou Tinamus major, also called Mountain hen is a species of tinamou ground bird native to Central and South America. More

The great tinamou has various roles in native American folklore in Brazil, Colombia, and Panama. Home of Wiki & Reference Answers, the world’s leading Q&A siteReference AnswersEnglish▼English▼ Deutsch Español Français Italiano Tagalog * * Search unanswered questions... * Browse: Unanswered questions | Most-recent questions | Reference library Enter a question here... More

Master bedroom Great Tinamou Porch Great tinamou Cottage The Great tinamou Cottage has the same layout as the Highland Tinamou but is more luxurious with a King bed in the Master bedroom and a some what bigger bathroom. Floor plan Great tinamou Cottage Like the Highland Tinamou the Great Tinamou cottage offers you a cosy living room with a kitchen. More

at a great tinamou skulking about beneath the forest floor outside of Canopy Tower in Panama. More

Aspects of the topic great tinamou are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Assorted References * description (in tinamou (bird order): General features) ...nanus)—about 15 cm (6 inches) long and 150 grams (5 ounces) in weight—to about 50 cm (20 inches) long and 2 kg (4 pounds) in larger species, such as the great tinamou (Tinamus major). More

The Great Tinamou Tinamus major, also called Mountain hen is a species of tinamou ground bird native to Central and South America. There are several subspecies, mostly differentiated by their coloration: Great Tinamou are approximately 44 cm (17 in) long, 1.1 kg (2.4 lb) in weight and size and... More

spooked and watched run away, and the Great Tinamou that gave us fits trying to see it - the trail was great fun this year. Of course there were the ever-present Scarlet Macaws and the mind-boggling number of birds along the “gate-road”, with the highlights this year being a displaying Black-tailed Flycatcher, a nest of Royal Flycatcher right along the trail, a stunning Bare-throated Tiger-Heron, a male Long-tailed Manakin - on and on! The mouth of the Tarcoles River produced several interesting birds. More

The Great Tinamou Tinamus major is a species of tinamou ground bird native to Central and South America. There are several subspecies, mostly differentiated by their coloration: T. M. percautus occurs in southern Mexico and Guatemala T. M. robustus occurs in central Guatemala to northern Nicaragua T. M. fuscipennis occurs in east Nicaragua to Panama T. M. castaneiceps occurs in south-west Costa Rica and western Panama T. M. brunniventris occurs in central Panama T. M. More

Great Tinamou Tinamus major Great Tinamou Tinamus major Great Tinamou Tinamus major Great Tinamou Tinamus major Bargain of the day! Great Tinamou Links will open countrypage in new window - Honduras 08.07.1999 Birds of Honduras in danger of extinction - Panama 18.10.1996 America - Surinam 18.03. More

oxbow lake, a very confiding Great Tinamou, great views of a Black-faced Anthrush, a Northern Royal Flycatcher (unfortunately with its crest folded down), Stub-tailed and Golden-crowned Spadebills, and a few Slate-colored Seedeaters (the first I have seen in Costa Rica in nearly 15 years!). There were many more highlights, and our daily counts exceeded 120 species. More

Great Tinamou I've seen was freshly killed by a local hunter in Peru). This puts them right up at the front of any taxonomic listing of world birds. Tinamous are among the oldest families in the New World, with fossils dating back ten million years. Their close relationship to ratites has been confirmed through multiple analyses: DNA-DNA hybridization, palate structure, calcite orientation in eggshells, ontogeny, musculature, metabolic physiology, and others (summarized in Cabot 1992). More

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Order : Tinamiformes
Family : Tinamidae
Genus : Tinamus
Species : major
Authority : (Gmelin, 1789)