Photo © by Stanley Jones
Santa Rosa National Park, Liberia, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, 9 July 2023
Santa Rosa National Park, Liberia, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, 9 July 2023
Alternative name: Rufescent Tinamou
- Crypturellus cinnamomeus
Identification
Length 27cm (10½ in}
Brown above, heavily barred blackish on back, rump and wings. Paler below, cinnamon on breast, greyer on belly and undertail whitish with dark barring. Head brown with prominent buff supercilium and well-defined ear covert patch.
Bill brownish, legs bright red.
Distribution
Southern Sinaloa in Mexico, Costa Rica, Belize, Nicaragua, and Honduras.
Taxonomy
Subspecies
There are 1[1]
- C. c. occidentalis: Coastal western Mexico (Sinaloa to Guerrero) (greyer below)
- C. c. soconuscensis: Pacific slope of southern Mexico (Oaxaca and Chiapas)
- C. c. mexicanus: Atlantic coast of Mexico (Tamaulipas to Puebla)
- C. c. sallaei: South Mexico (Puebla to s Veracruz, Oaxaca and Chiapas)
- C. c. goldmani: South East Mexico (Yucatán Peninsula) to northern Guatemala and northern Belize
- C. c. vicinior: Highlands of southern Mexico (Chiapas) to Guatemala and central Honduras
- C. c. cinnamomeus: Coastal south-eatern Mexico (Chiapas) to El Salvador and Honduras
- C. c. delattrii: Pacific lowlands of Nicaragua
- C. c. praepes: Lowlands of north-western Costa Rica
Habitat
Dry forest, woodlands and brush thickets. More arid areas than many other tinamous.
Behaviour
Vocalisation
A plaintive whistling whoo-oo with an upward inflection at the end.
Movements
A residentspecies.
References
- Clements, J. F., T. S. Schulenberg, M. J. Iliff, T. A. Fredericks, J. A. Gerbracht, D. Lepage, S. M. Billerman, B. L. Sullivan, and C. L. Wood. 2022. The eBird/Clements checklist of Birds of the World: v2022. Downloaded from https://www.birds.cornell.edu/clementschecklist/download/
Recommended Citation
- BirdForum Opus contributors. (2025) Thicket Tinamou. In: BirdForum, the forum for wild birds and birding. Retrieved 12 May 2025 from https://www.birdforum.net/opus/Thicket_Tinamou
External Links
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