Barred Tinamou vs Grey-legged Tinamou

Crypturellus casiquiare 比較対象 Crypturellus duidae

Side-by-Side Comparison

属性 Barred Tinamou Grey-legged Tinamou
学名 Crypturellus casiquiare Crypturellus duidae
Tinamiformes Tinamiformes
Tinamidae Tinamidae
保全状況 Least Concern Least Concern
体長
翼開長 27.0 cm (10.6 in) 32.6 cm (12.8 in)
体重 287.625 g (10.15 oz) 429.5 g (15.15 oz)
食性 Grazes grasses and aquatic vegetation near wetland edges; sedges and stems dominate diet; supplements with … Ground-gleaner taking seeds, berries, and arthropods in Amazonian forests; invertebrate proportion rises in wet season.
一腹卵数 -- --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

共通生息地

Barred Tinamou only

None

Grey-legged Tinamou only

None

Barred Tinamou

Restricted to humid lowland forest along the Casiquiare canal region of southern Venezuela and extreme northwestern Brazil. Associated with river-edge and flooded forest at low elevations. Rarely recorded.

Grey-legged Tinamou

Montane forest and shrubby tepui slopes at 600–1,800 m on isolated table-mountains in southern Venezuela and adjacent northern Brazil. Restricted range; known from very few locations.

Song & Call Comparison

Barred Tinamou

さえずり

A slow, hollow whistle from blackwater river forest of the upper Orinoco. Call is distinctive but rarely recorded given its restricted range on the Venezuela-Colombia border.

Grey-legged Tinamou

さえずり

A series of hollow whistles with a slightly husky tone. Calls from dense forest floor cover in tepui foothills. Considered vocally conservative among Crypturellus tinamous.

Geographic Range & Migration

Barred Tinamou

Inhabits savannas and forest edges of northeastern Brazil's semi-arid Caatinga region. Sedentary and endemic to this biome.

Grey-legged Tinamou

Endemic to the humid Andean slopes of western Colombia and northwestern Ecuador. Sedentary in cloud forest from 800 to 2,200 m.

保全状況

Least Concern

Barred Tinamou

Least Concern

Grey-legged Tinamou

How to Tell Them Apart

Barred Tinamou

羽毛

Heavily and boldly barred throughout; upperparts dark brown with broad black bars. Crown blackish; face pale. Throat whitish; breast and flanks strongly barred black and buff. Belly whitish.

Grey-legged Tinamou

羽毛

Dark brown upperparts with blackish barring. Diagnostic gray legs distinguish it from red-legged congeners. Throat whitish; breast rufous-brown; belly pale. Crown darker; sexes similar.

About These Birds

Barred Tinamou

カシキアレティナム(Crypturellus casiquiare)— ベネズエラとブラジル北部の雨林に生息する희귀한 ティナム。アマゾンとオリノコの流域に生息する。

Grey-legged Tinamou

グレートティナム(Crypturellus duidae)— ベネズエラ南部のテプイ(卓状山)付近に生息する希少なティナム。高地の森林に生息する。

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