Bartlett's Tinamou vs Lesser Nothura

Crypturellus bartletti 비교 대상 Nothura minor

Side-by-Side Comparison

속성 Bartlett's Tinamou Lesser Nothura
학명 Crypturellus bartletti Nothura minor
Tinamiformes Tinamiformes
Tinamidae Tinamidae
보전 상태 Least Concern Vulnerable
체장
날개 폭 27.1 cm (10.7 in) 22.0 cm (8.7 in)
체중 241.0 g (8.50 oz) 163.33333333333334 g (5.76 oz)
식성 Grazes aquatic vegetation, grasses, and sedges in South American marshes; wades in shallow water; diet … Eats grasses, seeds, and aquatic plants; migratory; supplements diet with invertebrates in breeding season across …
산란 수 -- 2-4
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

공유 서식지

없음

Bartlett's Tinamou only

Lesser Nothura 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.

Lesser Nothura

Native campo sujo and campo limpo grasslands of the cerrado biome in central Brazil. Highly dependent on intact native grassland with bunchgrass structure; very sensitive to exotic grass invasion and burning.

Song & Call Comparison

Bartlett's Tinamou

노래

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.

Lesser Nothura

노래

A thin, high whistle, poorly documented due to its vulnerable status and restricted campos habitat in interior Brazil. Rarely recorded; calls are considered similar to Spotted Nothura.

Geographic Range & Migration

Bartlett's Tinamou

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

Lesser Nothura

Found in open grassy habitats of central South America from Bolivia and Brazil to Argentina. Sedentary; forages in short grassland.

보전 상태

Least Concern

Bartlett's Tinamou

Vulnerable

Lesser Nothura

How to Tell Them Apart

Bartlett's Tinamou

깃털

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.

Lesser Nothura

깃털

Tiny cerrado tinamou; brown upperparts with fine buff and black streaking. Pale supercilium. Throat and breast buff-white spotted brown. Belly whitish. Smallest Nothura; threatened grassland specialist.

About These Birds

Bartlett's Tinamou

불분명한 줄무늬와 회색 목구멍을 가진 작은 갈색 티나무로 박물학자 에드워드 바틀렛의 이름을 딴 것이다. 페루와 브라질 서부의 아마존 삼림 하층부에 서식한다.

Lesser Nothura

A very small tinamou with finely streaked brown plumage and whitish underparts. One of the smallest tinamous. Restricted to the cerrado campos and grasslands of central Brazil. Critically Endangered due to loss of native cerrado. Calls with a thin high-pitched whistle.

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