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Nothoprocta ornata (Ornate Tinamou)

Synonyms: Nothoprocta ornata jimenezi; Nothoprocta ornata labradori

Infraspecies

Nothoprocta ornata branickii (Ornate tinamou)
Nothoprocta ornata ornata (Ornate tinamou)
Nothoprocta ornata rostrata (Ornate tinamou)

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
9
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
34
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 18.0268
EDGE Score: 2.94585
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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.369 lbs (621 g)
Female Weight [3]  1.486 lbs (674 g)
Male Weight [3]  1.254 lbs (569 g)
Weight Dimorphism [3]  18.5 %
Diet [2]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Frugivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Fruit [2]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [2]  20 %
Diet - Plants [2]  50 %
Diet - Seeds [2]  20 %
Forages - Understory [2]  40 %
Forages - Ground [2]  60 %
Clutch Size [5]  6
Clutches / Year [1]  2
Incubation [4]  23 days

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Reserva Biologica de la Cordillera de Sama Biological Reserve IV 265144 Bolivia  
Reserva de la Biosfera de Pozuelos Biosphere Reserve 988422 Argentina  
Reserva Nacional de Fauna Ulla Ulla National Fauna Reserve 559837 Bolivia  
Reserva Nacional Lauca National Park II 349990 Chile  

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Erodium cicutarium (redstem)[6]
Hordeum vulgare (cereal barley)[6]
Picradeniopsis multiflora (manyflower false threadleaf)[6]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Range Map

External References

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
♦ 2Hamish 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
♦ 3Davies, SJJF (2002) Ratites and Tinamous: Tinamidae, Rheidae, Dromaiidae, Casuariidae, Apterygidae, Struthionidae (Bird Families of the World). Oxford University Press, Oxford
♦ 4del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 5Jetz 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
♦ 6THE FEEDING ECOLOGY AND DIGESTIVE TRACT MORPHOMETRY OF TWO SYMPATRIC TINAMOUS OF THE HIGH PLATEAU OF THE BOLIVIAN ANDES: THE ORNATE TINAMOU (NOTHOPROCTA ORNATA) AND THE DARWIN’S NOTHURA (NOTHURA DARWINII), Álvaro Garitano-Zavala, Jacint Nadal & Pamela Ávila, ORNITOLOGIA NEOTROPICAL 14: 173–194, 2003
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
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