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)

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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