Barred Tinamou vs Grey-legged Tinamou

Crypturellus casiquiare 对比 Crypturellus duidae

Side-by-Side Comparison

属性 Barred Tinamou Grey-legged Tinamou
学名 Crypturellus casiquiare Crypturellus duidae
Tinamiformes Tinamiformes
Tinamidae Tinamidae
保护状况 Least Concern Least Concern
体长
翼展 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.
产卵数 -- --
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

共同栖息地

Barred Tinamou only

Grey-legged Tinamou only

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

鸣唱

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

鸣唱

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.

保护状况

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

卡西基亚雷林鷚(Crypturellus casiquiare)— 分布于委内瑞拉和巴西北部雨林的稀有林鷚。栖息于亚马逊和奥里诺科流域。

Grey-legged Tinamou

杜伊达林鷚(Crypturellus duidae)— 分布于委内瑞拉南部台地山附近的稀有林鷚。栖息于高地森林。

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