Tag: Nothoprocta ornata

The feeding ecology and digestive tract morphometry of two sympatric tinamous of the high plateau of the bolivian andes

Ornate Tinamou (Nothoprocta ornata) Science Article 1 abstract We studied the trophic niche breadth and the degree of overlap in the winter diets of two sympatric species of tinamous in the Bolivian Andes, the Ornate Tinamou (Nothoprocta ornata) and the Darwin?s Nothura (Nothura darwinii), by analyzing crop and gizzard contents of birds collected by sport […]

Ornate Tinamou (Nothoprocta ornata)

[order] TINAMIFORMES | [family] Tinamidae | [latin] Nothoprocta ornata | [authority] Gray, 1867 | [UK] Ornate Tinamou | [FR] Tinamou orne | [DE] Pisacca-Steisshuhn | [ES] Inambu Serrano Grande, Tinamu Pisacca | [NL] Pisacca-tinamoe Subspecies Monotypic species Genus Tinamous are paleognaths related to the flightless ratites. They are probably close in appearance to the flying […]