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Rufous-breasted Wood Quail

Odontophorus speciosus

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernOmnivoreForestLarge · 317 g
Rufous-breasted Wood Quail (Odontophorus speciosus), photo 1
Photo: Laura Gaudette · CC BY 4.0
Rufous-breasted Wood Quail (Odontophorus speciosus), photo 2
Photo: Ian Adams · CC BY 4.0
Rufous-breasted Wood Quail (Odontophorus speciosus), photo 3
Photo: desertnaturalist · CC BY 4.0
Rufous-breasted Wood Quail (Odontophorus speciosus), photo 4
Photo: (c) Ian Adams, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC BY 4.0
Rufous-breasted Wood Quail (Odontophorus speciosus), photo 5
Photo: (c) Laura Gaudette, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY
Rufous-breasted Wood Quail (Odontophorus speciosus), photo 6
Photo: (c) Ian Adams, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

What the Rufous-breasted Wood Quail sounds like

Sonogram of the Rufous-breasted Wood Quail: time runs left to right, pitch bottom to top, and the brighter the mark the louder the sound.
Recorded by Niels Krabbe · Song · Zamora-Chinchipe: SE Zumba: turnoff to Chito on La Chonta - El Chorro road, Ecuador · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via xeno-canto

When to see the Rufous-breasted Wood Quail

One bar for each month, and every month is filled: this bird is recorded here in all twelve. The wide bar is October, the month with the most records.

Where to see the Rufous-breasted Wood Quail

Regular rangeRare visitor

The map shades 3 countries with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Ecuador Peru Bolivia

Recorded as a rare visitor in Colombia.

About the Rufous-breasted Wood Quail

The rufous-breasted wood quail is a species of bird in the family Odontophoridae. It is found in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru primarily on the east side of the Andes between 800 and 2000m in elevation.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Easily confused with

Starred Wood QuailOdontophorus stellatusThe starred wood quail is between about 24 and 28 cm (9.4 and 11.0 in) long, males being slightly larger than females. Black-fronted Wood Quail (Odontophorus atrifrons) Black-fronted Wood QuailOdontophorus atrifronsThe black-fronted wood quail is 24 to 30 cm (9.4 to 11.8 in) long. Rufous-fronted Wood Quail (Odontophorus erythrops) Rufous-fronted Wood QuailOdontophorus erythropsThe rufous-fronted wood quail is 23 to 28 cm (9.1 to 11.0 in) long.

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