Bartlett's Tinamou vs Puna Tinamou

Crypturellus bartletti comparado con Tinamotis pentlandii

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Atributo Bartlett's Tinamou Puna Tinamou
Nombre científico Crypturellus bartletti Tinamotis pentlandii
Orden Tinamiformes Tinamiformes
Familia Tinamidae Tinamidae
Estado de conservación Least Concern Least Concern
Longitud
Envergadura 27,1 cm (10.7 in) 50,7 cm (20.0 in)
Peso 241,0 g (8.50 oz) 943,2 g (33.27 oz)
Dieta Grazes aquatic vegetation, grasses, and sedges in South American marshes; wades in shallow water; diet … Eats grasses, roots, and aquatic plants; grazes pastures and wetland margins; diet shifts to cereal …
Tamaño de la puesta -- 4-7
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

Hábitats compartidos

Ninguno

Bartlett's Tinamou only

Puna Tinamou only

Bartlett's Tinamou

Lowland humid forest in the western Amazon basin of Peru, Ecuador, and adjacent Colombia and Brazil. Prefers undisturbed terra firme and seasonally flooded forest interior below 400 m.

Puna Tinamou

Open puna grassland, bunchgrass plains, and rocky hillsides at 3,500–5,000 m in the Andes from Peru through Bolivia to northern Chile and northwestern Argentina.

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Song & Call Comparison

Bartlett's Tinamou

Canto

A soft, repeated whistle from Amazonian lowland forest. Less well known than other Crypturellus; its call is a simple 2-note descending whistle given from dense cover.

Puna Tinamou

Canto

A high-pitched, clear whistle from high Andean puna. Call carries through the thin air of altiplano above 4,000 m elevation. Among the highest-dwelling tinamou species.

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Geographic Range & Migration

Bartlett's Tinamou

Ranges from southern Mexico through Central America to northern South America. Sedentary in humid lowland forest understory.

Puna Tinamou

Inhabits marshes and wetland edges across the Southern Cone; from southeastern Brazil to Patagonian Argentina. Partially migratory.

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Estado de conservación

Least Concern

Bartlett's Tinamou

Least Concern

Puna Tinamou

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How to Tell Them Apart

Bartlett's Tinamou

Plumaje

Brown upperparts with fine blackish barring; crown dark. Throat whitish to pale buff; breast rufous-brown. Belly buff-white. Reddish legs. Small tinamou of Amazonian lowland forests; sexes similar.

Puna Tinamou

Plumaje

Large; grayish-brown upperparts streaked dark. Crown grayish with pale central stripe; white supercilium. Breast grayish spotted; flanks barred. Belly whitish. Adapted to high-altitude Andean puna.

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About These Birds

Bartlett's Tinamou

A small brown tinamou with obscure barring and a grey throat, named after naturalist Edward Bartlett. Found in the western Amazon basin in Peru, Ecuador, and adjacent Brazil. Terrestrial and cryptic; detected mainly by its soft clear whistle in humid forest.

Puna Tinamou

A large robustly built tinamou with grey-brown streaked plumage and a slightly crested head. The only tinamou with a vestigial crest. Found on high Andean puna and altiplano. Gregarious, foraging in flocks on bunchgrass plains and rocky hillsides.

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