#elegant crested tinamou

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A new variant has been added!

Elegant Crested Tinamou (Eudromia elegans) © nicochimento

It hatches from crested, distinctive, emphatic, endemic, northern, open, red, rocky, similar, and striking eggs.

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[tasty-patches]

Elegant crested tinamou at the St. Louis Zoo

Nikon D850, Nikkor 105mm D

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Elegant Crested-Tinamou (Eudromia elegans), male, family Tinamidae, order Tinamiformes, found in Patagonia in southern South America

The tinamous are an ancient group of birds, related to ratites (ostriches, rheas, emus, and cassowaries).

Though they are not strong flyers, they are capable of flight.

photograph by Ignacio Yúfera

[jazzapples3]

Silly Game Time: SOUTH AMERICAN ANIMAL TIME! Use a random letter generator, then look up South American animals that start with that letter. What's one of them? Post a picture of it!

I got the letter E so I got the Elegant Crested Tinamou

Cracking looker it is. Love its hairdo

[splashcat413]

The Elegant Crested Tinamou.

You recently moved to the countryside. Your child was playing in the woods, and came back with a large green egg you thought was plastic, so you agreed they could keep it if no one claimed it. Your kid said it was a gift. You thought nothing of it. Then the egg hatched.

[koval-ptaki-birds]

187) Eudromia elegans; Kusacz pampasowy, kurak stinamu, elegant crested tinamou (kusacz czubaty elegancki), martineta tinamou - gatunek średniego ptaka lądowego z rodziny kusaczy (Tinamidae), zamieszkujący Amerykę Południową. Nie jest zagrożony wyginięciem. Kusacz pampasowy występuje w zależności od podgatunku:

E. elegans intermedia – północno-zachodnia Argentyna, być może także skrajnie południowa Boliwia

E. elegans magnistriata – północno-zachodnia Argentyna

E. elegans riojana – zachodnio-środkowa Argentyna

E. elegans albida – zachodnio-środkowa Argentyna

E. elegans wetmorei – zachodnia Argentyna

E. elegans numida – środkowa Argentyna

E. elegans elegans – południowo-środkowa Argentyna

E. elegans multiguttata – wschodnio-środkowa Argentyna

E. elegans devia – południowo-zachodnia Argentyna

E. elegans patagonica – południowe Chile (region Aysén) i południowa Argentyna.

Prowadzi naziemny tryb życia. Prawie w ogóle nie lata, jedynie w sytuacji zagrożenia podrywa się na chwilę w powietrze, by za chwilę wylądować. Zimą kusacze pampasowe zbierają się w grupki od 6 do 30 ptaków i wspólnie przemierzają duże połacie terenu w poszukiwaniu pożywienia. Latem, kiedy jest obfitość pożywienia, pozostają z reguły na niewielkim obszarze. Otwarte, suche tereny trawiasto-krzewiaste: pampa, puna i chaco. Występują na wysokościach od poziomu morza do 2500 m n.p.m.

Międzynarodowa Unia Ochrony Przyrody (IUCN) uznaje kusacza pampasowego za gatunek najmniejszej troski (LC – Least Concern). Liczebność populacji nie została oszacowana; w 1996 roku ptak ten opisywany był jako dość pospolity. Jego liczebność spada ze względu na polowania i utratę siedlisk. Naturalnymi wrogami kusaczy pampasowych są skunksy, lisy, dzikie koty oraz ptaki drapieżne, takie jak myszołów rdzawogrzbiety.

[coppercookie]

My favourite tinamids

[theraptorcage]

trick or tweet! any tinamous (and/or their eggs) please

How does something that look like the essence of Borb make eggs that look like oversized peanut m&ms??

[sunrisetune]

#species is elegant crested tinamou i think (via Birdbrainedii)

Today’s bird is Friend Shaped™️

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Eudromia

Elegant Crested Tinamou, by Dick Daniels, CC BY-SA 4.0

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Name: Eudromia

Status: Extant

First Described: 1832

Described By: I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 

Classification: Dinosauria, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Averostra, Tetanurae, Orionides, Avetheropoda, Coelurosauria, Tyrannoraptora, Maniraptoriformes, Maniraptora, Pennaraptora, Paraves, Eumaniraptora, Averaptora, Avialae, Euavialae, Avebrevicauda, Pygostylia, Ornithothoraces, Euornithes, Ornithuromorpha, Ornithurae, Neornithes, Palaeognathae, Notopalaeognathae, Tinamiformes + Dinornithiformes Clade, Tinamiformes, Nothurinae 

Referred Species: E. elegans (Elegant Crested Tinamou, extnat), E. formosa (Quebrancho Crested Tinamou, extant), E. olsoni (extinct), E. intermedia (extinct) 

Eudromia is our next genus of Tinamou, and they’re distinct for their crests on the top of their heads - giving all species of this genus a rather distinct look compared to other Tinamou. Only two species are alive today, the Elegant Crested Tinamou and the Quebrancho Crested Tinamou, but there were quite a few extinct forms during the Pliocene and latest Miocene - indicating that this genus probably first appeared somewhere around 7 to 5 million years ago. 

E. olsoni, by José Carlos Cortés on @quetzalcuetzpalin-art​ 

The older known extinct species, E. intermedia, isn’t very will described or discussed - having been found in 1914. It lived in the Monte Hermoso Formation of Argentina - the Early Pliocene portion, from about 5.3 to 3.6 million years ago, in the Zanclean of the Pliocene. It probably evolved directly into - or was very closely related to - the later (and better known) E. olsoni. E. olsoni is also from the Monte Hermoso Formation, but from the later member - so it lived in the Piacenzian of the Pliocene, about 3.6 to 2.6 million years ago. It is known form elements of the legs and pelvis, which show that E. olsoni was very closely related to its modern relatives, and in fact the three form a clade together (closely related to the non-crested Tinamotis). E. olsoni would have been very similar to its modern relatives, and probably also had some sort of crest on its head. 

Elegant Crested Tinamou, by Stavenn, CC BY 2.5

As for living species, both of them are not endangered and living in the shrublands of lower South America. The Elegant Crested Tinamou lives in Chile and Argentina, and is about 39 to 41 centimeters long on average. They look like weirdly proportioned partridges with their striped feathers and crests. They lay green, shiny eggs in hollows in the ground, which are incubated and then reared by the males. The babies are very precocial, as with all tinamou. The Elegant Crested Tinamou also forms large flocks, unlike most other Tinamou. They make loud, sad-sounding whistles for calls. The Quebracho Crested Tinamou lives in Paraguay and Argentina, and is 39 centimeters in length. They’re usually greyish brown and blackish with some white spots, and the males once again rear the young. Both enjoy eating fruit and small amounts of invertebrates, seeds, and roots. 

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eudromia 

http://fossilworks.org/?a=collectionSearch&collection_no=152085 

Bertelli, S, L. M. Chiappe, G. Mayr. 2014. Phylogenetic interrelationships of living and extinct Tinamidae, volant palaeognathous birds form the New World. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 172: 145 - 184. 

Cenizo, M. M., C. P. Tambussi, C. I. Montalvo. 2012.Late Miocene continental birds from the Cerro Azul Formation in the Pampean region (central-southern Argentina).  Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Paleongology 36(1): 47 - 68. 

Tambussi, C. P., J. I. Noriega, E. P. Tonni. 1993. Late Cenozoic Birds of Buenos Aires Province (Argentina): an attempt to document quantitative faunal changes. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 101: 117 - 129. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegant_crested_tinamou 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quebracho_crested_tinamou

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Elegant Crested-Tinamou (Eudromia elegans)

© Michael I Christie

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A new variant has been added!

Elegant Crested Tinamou (Eudromia elegans) © cotinga

It hatches from crested, distinctive, emphatic, endemic, northern, open, red, rocky, similar, and striking eggs.

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Elegant Crested Tinamou (Eudromia elegans) - photo by elrina753

[nunoxaviermoreira]

a an elegant crested tinamou (Eudromia elegans) by Dis da fi we 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. https://flic.kr/p/2me2Y99

[triruntu]

Bird suggestions for drawing - the elegant crested tinamou, or perhaps a plush crested jay?

Both very pretty birds, I will do my best to do them well! Thank you.

They'll be #452 and #452!

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Martineta Colorada or 'Elegant Crested Tinamou'.

Peninsula Valdes, Patagonia, Argentina

November, 2016