Red-winged Tinamou

About the Red-winged Tinamou

The red-winged tinamou (Rhynchotus rufescens) is a medium-sized ground-living bird from central and eastern South America. Other common names for the species include perdiz grande, rufous tinamou, and ynambu. The red-winged tinamou was formally described in 1815 by the Dutch zoologist Coenraad Jacob Temminck under the binomial name Tinamus rufescens. Temminck based his account on the "Ynambu-guazu" from Brazil that had been described in 1805 by the Spanish naturalist Félix de Azara. The type locality was restricted to São Paulo in Brazil by Carl Eduard Hellmayr in 1929. The specific epithet rufescens is Latin meaning "reddish". The red-winged tinamou is now placed with the huayco tinamou in the genus Rhynchotus that was introduced in 1825 by Johann Baptist von Spix. Its common name refers to the bright rufous primaries, which mainly are visible in flight.

Three subspecies are recognised: R. r. catingae Reiser, 1905 – central, northeast Brazil R. r. pallescens Kothe, 1907 – northeast, central Argentina R. r. rufescens (Temminck, 1815) – north Bolivia to east Brazil, Paraguay, northeast Argentina and Uruguay

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