Order: Tinamiformes | Family: Tinamidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Titicaca Basin
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Espinar, Cusco
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Titicaca Basin
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Espinar, Cusco
Status: The Darwin’s Nothura is fairly common at elevations above 3800 m. It favors wet grasslands with scattered shrubs in apparently disjunct populations. It also ranges at elevations of 1000 m in the Urubamba Valley. The Darwin’s Nothura also occurs in Bo.
Name in Spanish: Perdiz de Darwin.
Sub-species: Darwin’s Nothura (Nothura darwinii peruviana), Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1906. Tropical zone of S Peru (Cuzco), locally N to Huánuco.
(N. d. agassizii), Bangs, 1910. Altiplano from SE Peru (Cuzco, Puno) S to WC Bolivia (L Poopó).
Meaning of Name: Nothura: Gr. nothos= false; and oura= tail. darwinii: In honor of Charles Darwin (1809-1882) British naturalist, creator of the Darwinism and author of the “Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection”, 1859.
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- Species range based on: Schulenberg, T. S., D. F. Stotz, and L. Rico. 2006. Distribution maps of the birds of Peru, version 1.0. Environment, Culture & Conservation (ECCo). The Field Museum. http://fm2.fieldmuseum.org/uw_test/birdsofperu on 08/01/2015.