Tinamus solitarius

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Overview

Threatened

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: tropical lowland evergreen forest • Maximum Elevation: 1,200 meters • Zoogeographic Region: o • Foraging Strata: Terrestrial • Center of Abundance: Lower tropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; tropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Medium

Biome: Terrestrial

Ecology:
List of Habitats :1.6Forest - Subtropical/Tropical Moist Lowland

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 28-Jun-2005

Similar Species

Members of the genus Tinamus

There are approximately 35 species in this genus:

T. adpersus · T. boraquira · T. boucardi · T. castaneiceps · T. cinereus · T. guttatus (White-Throated Tinamou) · T. major (Great Tinamou) · T. major brunneiventris · T. major castaneiceps · T. major fuscipennis · T. major latifrons · T. major major (Great Tinamou) · T. major olivascens · T. major percautus · T. major peruvianus · T. major robustus · T. major saturatus · T. major serratus · T. major zuliensis · T. medius · T. minor · T. osgoodi (Black Tinamou) · T. osgoodi hershkovitzi · T. osgoodi osgoodi (Black Tinamou) · T. robustus · T. serratus · T. solitarius (Solitary Tinamou) · T. solitarius pernambucensis (Pernambuco Solitary Tinamou) · T. solitarius solitarius (Solitary Tinamou) · T. strigulosus · T. tao (Grey Tinamou) · T. tao kleei · T. tao larensis · T. tao septentrionalis · T. tao tao (Grey Tinamou)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A Lavoura: boletim da Sociedade Nacional de Agricultura Brazileira. [Rio de Janeiro]: Sociedade Nacional de Agricultura, POR url p. 498.
• A new species of Tinamus from Peru [by] Boardman Conover. [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1949. ENG url p. 266.
• Asteroid notes. Northfield, Minn, Goodsell Observatory of Carleton College, 1934-1950. ENG url p. 229.
• Baillie, J. and Groombridge, B. (compilers and editors) 1996. 1996 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland.
• Bird lice from the Tinamidae. Chicago, 1943. ENG url p. 386.
• BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
• BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History and including all species and subspecies known to occur in North America, Mexico, Central America, South America, the West Indies, and islands of the Caribbean Chicago, 1918- ENG url p. 10, p. 23, p. 308.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. ENG url p. 501.
• Catalogue of the Collection of Birds' Eggs in the British Museum / By E. W. Oates [and afterwards] by S. G. Reid [and] W. R. Ogilvie-Grant. London, 1901-12. ENG url p. 229.
• Catalogue of the specimens illustrating the osteology of vertebrated animals, recent and extinct, contained in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. London, 1891. ENG url p. 415.
• Collar, N.J. and Andrew, P. 1988. Birds to Watch. The ICBP World Checklist of Threatened Birds. ICBP Technical Publication No. 8. Page Bros. (Norwich) Ltd, Norfolk, England.
• Collar, N.J., Crosby, M.J. and Stattersfield, A.J. 1994. Birds to Watch 2. The World List of Threatened Birds BirdLife International. Page Bros (Norwich) Ltd, U.K.
• IUCN. 1990. 1990 IUCN Red List of Threatened Animals. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. ENG url p. 55.
• Katalog der Eiersammlung, nebst Beschreibungeh der aussereuropchen Eier. Berlin, R. Friedler & Sohn, 1910. GER url p. 4.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] ENG url p. 211, p. 216, p. 228.
• Revista do Museu Paulista. S�o Paulo: Museu Paulista, 1895- POR url p. 329, p. 344, p. 458.
• The Review of applied entomology. Farnham Royal, Eng. [etc.]: Commonwealth Agricultural Bureaux [etc.] ENG url p. 137, p. 245.
• The structure and classification of birds, by Frank E. Beddard... LondonLongmans, Green, and co., 1898. ENG url p. 486, p. 489, p. 491.
• Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History. [San Diego]: The Society, 1905- ENG url p. 295.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• BirdLife International 2004. Tinamus solitarius. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 20 October 2006.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed November 6, 2006.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 11, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 18, 2009.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 11, 2008:

• Senckenberg: Collection Aves (spirit preserved)
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3854716
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-174403
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13762840
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 174403
• IUCN ID: 21911
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Species Identifier: B05P
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 12222

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