Order: Tinamiformes | Family: Tinamidae | IUCN Status: Least Concern
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Cusco, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Cusco, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Cusco, Peru
Age: Adult | Sex: Unknown | Loc. Cusco, Peru
Status: The Taczanowski’s Tinamou is uncommon to rare on a relatively restricted range between 2800-4000 m on the east slope of the Andes. It appears to favor wet grasslands, but can also be found in drier grasslands and agricultural field adjacent to grasslands. It also occurs in Bo.
Name in Spanish: Perdiz de Taczanowski.
Sub-species: Taczanowski’s Tinamou (Nothoprocta taczanowskii), P. L. Sclater and Salvin 1875.
Meaning of Name: Nothoprocta: Gr. Nothos= false, spurious and proktos= the tail. In reference to a short tail. taczanowskii: In honor of Wladyslaw Taczanowski (1819-1890) Polish ornithologist and author of (Ornithologie du Perou, 1984).

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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.