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Tinamus major (Great Tinamou)

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Infraspecies

Tinamus major brunneiventris (Great tinamou)
Tinamus major castaneiceps (Great tinamou)
Tinamus major fuscipennis (Great tinamou)
Tinamus major latifrons (Great tinamou)
Tinamus major major (Great tinamou)
Tinamus major olivascens (Great tinamou)
Tinamus major percautus (Great tinamou)
Tinamus major peruvianus (Great tinamou)
Tinamus major robustus (Great tinamou)
Tinamus major saturatus (Great tinamou)
Tinamus major serratus (Great tinamou)
Tinamus major zuliensis (Great tinamou)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
11
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
48
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 23.0177
EDGE Score: 3.87194
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  2.266 lbs (1.028 kg)
Birth Weight [3]  61 grams
Female Weight [5]  2.418 lbs (1.097 kg)
Male Weight [5]  2.116 lbs (960 g)
Weight Dimorphism [5]  14.3 %
Breeding Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests
Wintering Geography [2]  Non-migrartory
Wintering Habitat [2]  Tropical evergreen forests
Diet [4]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore
Diet - Ectothermic [4]  10 %
Diet - Fruit [4]  40 %
Diet - Invertibrates [4]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [4]  30 %
Forages - Ground [4]  100 %
Clutch Size [7]  4
Egg Length [1]  2.362 inches (60 mm)
Egg Width [1]  1.85 inches (47 mm)
Incubation [6]  17 days
Mating System [3]  Polyandry

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No
Tumbes-Choco-Magdalena Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru No

Prey / Diet

Geonoma stricta[8]
Guarea gomma[8]
Virola surinamensis (Baboonwood)[8]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 5Davies, SJJF (2002) Ratites and Tinamous: Tinamidae, Rheidae, Dromaiidae, Casuariidae, Apterygidae, Struthionidae (Bird Families of the World). Oxford University Press, Oxford
♦ 6del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 7Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 8Erard C., Théry M., Sabatier Daniel. (1991). Régime alimentaire de Tinamus major (Tinamidae), Crax alector (Cracidae) et Psophia crepitans ((Psophiidae), en forêt guyanaise. Gibier Faune Sauvage, 8, 183-210.
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Audio software provided by SoundManager 2
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0