Bartlett's Tinamou vs Puna Tinamou

Crypturellus bartletti comparado com Tinamotis pentlandii

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Side-by-Side Comparison

Atributo Bartlett's Tinamou Puna Tinamou
Nome científico Crypturellus bartletti Tinamotis pentlandii
Ordem Tinamiformes Tinamiformes
Família Tinamidae Tinamidae
Estado de conservação Least Concern Least Concern
Comprimento
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 …
Tamanho da postura -- 4-7
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

Habitats partilhados

Nenhum

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 conservação

Least Concern

Bartlett's Tinamou

Least Concern

Puna Tinamou

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How to Tell Them Apart

Bartlett's Tinamou

Plumagem

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

Plumagem

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

Inambu-de-Bartlett (Crypturellus bartletti) — Inambu do sub-bosque de florestas amazônicas do Peru e extremo norte do Brasil. Plumagem acastanhada com padrão distinto. Habita florestas de terra firme densas. Como todos os inambus, é extremamente difícil de observar, detectado principalmente pelo canto suave e melancólico ao amanhecer.

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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