Elegant crested tinamou

Elegant crested tinamou
At the Bronx Zoo, New York City
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Tinamiformes
Family: Tinamidae
Genus: Eudromia
Species:
E. elegans
Binomial name
Eudromia elegans
Subspecies

E. e. elegans(Saint-Hilaire, 1832)
E. e. intermedia (Dabbene & Lillo, 1913)
E. e. magnistriata (Olrog, 1959)
E. e. riojana (Olrog, 1959)
E. e. albida (Wetmore, 1921)
E. e. multiguttata (Conover, 1950)
E. e. devia (Conover, 1950)
E. e. patagonica (Conover, 1950)
E. e. wetmorei (Banks, 1977)
E. e. numida (Banks, 1977)

Synonyms
  • Calodromas elegans (d'Orb. & Geoff.)
  • Calopezus elegans

The elegant crested tinamou or martineta tinamou (Eudromia elegans) is a medium-sized tinamou that can be found in southern Chile and Argentina in Shrubland. The bird has an omnivorous diet. This species is terrestrial due to their poor flying ability.

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