#tinamous

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Little Tinamou

Photo: Doug Greenberg

"Furtive, almost tailless small game bird that lives on the ground in humid tropical lowlands. Favors forest edge and dense secondary growth rather than forest interior. When disturbed runs rather than flies. Very rarely seen (sometimes crosses quiet roads or trails), but tremulous whistles are often heard, especially early and late in the day."

- eBird

[herpsandbirds]

Puna Tinamou (Tinamotis pentlandii), family Tinamidae, order Tinamiformes, found in Puna (high altitude grassland) in the Southern Andes Mountains of 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.

photographs: Joxerra Aihartza, Marco Velentini, Esteban Villanueva, Luke Seitz

[ferntern]

Palaeognathes

[wheel-of-fandoms]

Are they though?

They are part of Palaeognathae, and cladistically fall within the rattite radiation, but I thought "rattites" was an informal name that describes a grade rather than a clade, namely birds without a keel on their sternum.

Global distribution of Ratites

[birdstudies]

January 3, 2024 - Brown Tinamou (Crypturellus obsoletus) These tinamous are found in mountain and lowland forests in parts of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Foraging on the forest floor, usually alone or in pairs, they eat seeds and probably invertebrates, though the details of their diet are unknown. Little is known about their breeding behavior, though they nest on the ground, laying clutches of around three or four eggs. Males may incubate the eggs alone, as in other tinamou species.

[mrcowboydeanwinchester]

i am. WRITING MY LITTLE FIC

[reallypheelingit]

I just had to draw the new gfs asap haha..Tinamou the Snapper and Amaryllis the tundra! they both have fun designs that I've never drawn myself so I figured I'd give it a go! I think they're very cute together C:

happy fat dragon friday!!

[chrysocomae]

X

best grass boys in class (Puna tinamou)

[dire-vulture]

omg the other day i saw an m snapper in a steampunk vest and was like 'omg wait why don't i have one..' and ended up impulse buying the guy at the top left! I needed a dragon to rep Fern anyway plus I'd been wanting to get a pink snapper too so..three birds with one dragon :D

anyway impromptu gen 1 snapper share!! gen 1 snappers always need some love c: I'm pretty happy with my collection right now!

[he-who-needs-to-be-silenced]

Reminder that this is the closest living relative to moas

You know these dudes

Art by Gabriel Ugueto

Kiwis are a completely other story.

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Trick or Treat!

Brushland Tinamou!

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Great Tinamou

Photo: Aaron Maizlish

"Large, almost tailless game bird that lives on the ground in humid tropical lowlands. Hunted for food and thus has been wiped out from many areas. Rarely seen, but haunting two-parted whistled song can be heard, especially early and late in the day and even at night. Sometimes flushes explosively from close range, crashing off through the forest understory."

- eBird

[herpsandbirds]

Black-capped Tinamou (Crypturellus atrocapillus), family Tinamidae, order Tinamiformes, Manu National Park, Peru

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.

They are shy and secretive birds.

photograph by Bo Larkeed

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Curve-billed Tinamou (Nothoprocta curvirostris) © Pumamaquito

It hatches from brown, dark, dense, grassy, hard, high, open, quiet, short, shy, small, such, terrestrial, typical, and white eggs.

squawkoverflow - the ultimate bird collecting game          🥚 hatch    ❤️ collect     🤝 connect

[medicalunprofessional]

eyeing my flight rising dragons. hm. maybe tis humanization/gijinka/whateverrrr time.

[mrcowboydeanwinchester]

Jo has walked straight out of 2009. Sure, she’s thoughtful enough, and girls often go easier on the bisexual thing, but still. Raised among the macho banter of the Roadhouse, Dean has no idea what thoughts got put in her head. Even if it’s not like he and Cas are together, the image of Jo’s lip curling unpleasantly around the word queer sends his head buzzing and he buries it deep down under. 

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