Choco Tinamou (Crypturellus kerriae) | Range and ID

NTNear ThreatenedOmnivore

ForestScrapeLarge · 412 g

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The Choco tinamou is approximately 25 to 26.5 cm (9.8–10.4 in) in length. It is a small, plain dark tinamou. Its upperparts are dark brown, with a blackish crown, slate-grey sides of neck, whitish throat and indistinct dusky barring. Its legs are red. The females are darker with coarser barring on wing-coverts and breast, and grey flanks.

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When to see the Choco Tinamou

One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 10 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is February, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Choco Tinamou

Regular range

The map shades 2 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Colombia Panama

About the Choco Tinamou

The Choco tinamou or Chocó tinamou is a type of tinamou found in lowland forest and montane forest in subtropical and tropical regions of Colombia and Panama.

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Easily confused with

Rusty TinamouCrypturellus brevirostrisThe rusty tinamou is 27 to 29 cm (10.6–11.4 in) in length. Tepui TinamouCrypturellus ptaritepuiThe tepui tinamou is approximately 27 cm (11 in) in length. Barred TinamouCrypturellus casiquiareThe barred tinamou is approximately 25 cm (9.8 in) in length.

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