Little Tinamou (Crypturellus soui)

Other Names (World)
Little Tinamou, Pileated Tinamou

Family
Tinamidae (Tinamous)

Size
21.50 - 24 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Hermann, 1783)

Habitat
Subtropical and tropical lowland moist forest. Also, subtropical and tropical lowland moist shrubland, heavily degraded former forest, plantations. From sea-level - 2,000 m.

Range (Guide)

Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Venezuela.

Population
Estimated population is 500,000 - 4,999,999 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
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Little Tinamou (Crypturellus soui) [XC831881]
by Ricardo Gagliardi from Rio Negro (near R\u00edo Negro), Cant\u00f3n Ba\u00f1os, Tungurahua, Ecuador (song)

Little Tinamou (Crypturellus soui) [XC506369]
by Dante Buzzetti from Brit\u00e2nia, Goi\u00e1s, Brazil (song)

Subspecies
The following 14 subspecies are recognised:

meserythrus (Sclater, PL, 1860) - Southern Mexico, Belize to south-eastern Nicaragua.
modestus (Cabanis, 1869) - Costa Rica, western Panama.
capnodes Wetmore, 1963 - North-western Panama.
poliocephalus (Aldrich, 1937) - Western & central Panama.
panamensis (Carriker, 1910) - Central & eastern Panama.
harterti (Brabourne & Chubb, C, 1914) - Western Colombia, western Ecuador.
caucae (Chapman, 1912) - North-central Colombia.
mustelinus (Bangs, 1905) - North-eastern Colombia, north-western Venezuela.
andrei (Brabourne & Chubb, C, 1914) - North-eastern Venezuela, Trinidad.
soui (Hermann, 1783) - Eastern Colombia to the Guianas and north-eastern Brazil.
caquetae (Chapman, 1915) - South-eastern Colombia.
nigriceps (Chapman, 1923) - Eastern Ecuador, north-eastern Peru.
inconspicuus Carriker, 1935 - Central & eastern Peru to eastern Bolivia.
albigularis (Brabourne & Chubb, C, 1914) - Northern & eastern Brazil.

References
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Files:

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