TINAMOUS   -   TINAMIDAE

Solitary Tinamou Tinamus solitarius Parque Estadual Intervales, São Paulo state, Brazil. This has got to be one of the hardest families to photograph; this is the only species I've managed to get a decent photo of. It was walking around in the open in the middle of a dirt road going through some nice Atlantic Rainforest. (D2)

Great Tinamou Tinamus major (ssp. uncertain) Soberania NP, Panama province, Panama. (S2f)

Ornate Tinamou Nothoprocta ornata rostrata El Infiernillo, Tucumán province, Argentina. Finally! A good tinamou photo. This species is however one of the easiest of the family to see. They live in sparse puna habitat in the Andes  from northern Peru through Argentina. (S5)

Chilean Tinamou Nothoprocta perdicaria Nahuelbuta National Park, Region IX, Chile. Endemic to Chile, where it likes fairly open fields with dense cover nearby. (S5)

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