Rhynchotus
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Red-winged tinamou, Rhynchotus rufescens | |
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Rhynchotus
Spix, 1825
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Rhynchotus rufescens |
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Rhynchotus is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises two members of this South American family.
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Taxonomy
Tinamous have evolved from ratites and are the only extant ratites that fly, and are the closest to the ancestral flying ratites.[1]
Species
The species are:
- The red-winged tinamou, Rhynchotus rufescens, located in northern and central Argentina, Brazil, except the western portion, Paraguay, Colombia, and southeastern Peru,[2] and possibly in Uruguay[1]
- The huayco tinamou, Rhynchotus maculicollis, located in the Andes of northwestern Argentina and Bolivia.[2]
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