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Examples of tinamou
tinamou
In most tinamou species, the male is polygamous and the female is polyandrous.
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The little tinamou usually lays two eggs in a small depression on the forest floor.
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On the face of it, the great tinamou is the stupidest bird on the planet.
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Tinamou feathers look like those of volant birds in that they have a rachis and two vanes.
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My favourites are the eggs of the red-winged tinamou, with their amazing, porcelain-like gloss.
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Patricia Brennan of Yale University used video cameras to monitor 39 great tinamou nests in a forest in Costa Rica.
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The structure of tinamou feathers is unique, however, in that they have barbs that remain joined at their tips.
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Around 75 per cent of tinamou eggs wind up as something's lunch, a rather high loss even for a tropical bird, which often lose more than half their offspring.
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- Heavy-bodied small-winged South American game bird resembling a gallinaceous bird but related to the ratite birds
- The tinamous are a family comprising 47 species of birds found in Central and South America. One of the most ancient living groups of bird, they are related to the ratites. Generally ground dwelling, they are found in a range of habitats.
- Any of the birds belonging to the South American family Tinamidae, the only family in the order Tinamiformes. They are related to the ratites, together with which they form the superorder Paleognathae
