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Spotted Nothura

Nothura maculosa

Least Concern · IUCN Red List

LCLeast ConcernOmnivoreGrasslandScrapeMedium · 257 g
Spotted Nothura (Nothura maculosa), photo 1
Photo: Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Nothura (Nothura maculosa), photo 2
Photo: Luciano Massa · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Nothura (Nothura maculosa), photo 3
Photo: Luciano Massa · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Nothura (Nothura maculosa), photo 4
Photo: Lauu · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Nothura (Nothura maculosa), photo 5
Photo: Lauu · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Nothura (Nothura maculosa), photo 6
Photo: Frank Thomas Sautter · CC0
Spotted Nothura (Nothura maculosa), photo 7
Photo: Luciano Massa · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Nothura (Nothura maculosa), photo 8
Photo: Luciano Massa · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Nothura (Nothura maculosa), photo 9
Photo: RAP · CC BY 4.0
Spotted Nothura (Nothura maculosa), photo 10
Photo: Nicolas Olejnik · CC BY 4.0

ID tip

The spotted nothura is approximately 24 to 25.5 cm (9.4–10.0 in) in length. The upper parts are brown with streaked buff. The under parts are buff streaked with black and brown on the breast, with barring to the flanks. Its crown is black streaked with buff and the throat is white. The overall hue in colour varies greatly over its range; in part caused by the differences in soil at the specific localities. It and the closely related Chaco nothura, N. chacoensis, are the only nothuras with barring to both webs of the primaries. The legs are dull yellowish-grey or brown.

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When to see the Spotted Nothura

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 Spotted Nothura

Regular range

The map shades 4 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.

Argentina Brazil Uruguay Paraguay

About the Spotted Nothura

The spotted nothura is a species of tinamou. This bird is native to grassy habitats in eastern and southern Brazil, Paraguay,Bolivia, Uruguay, and eastern and northern Argentina.

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

Easily confused with

White-bellied Nothura (Nothura boraquira) White-bellied NothuraNothura boraquiraThe white-bellied nothura is approximately 27 cm (11 in) in length. Darwin's Nothura (Nothura darwinii) Darwin's NothuraNothura darwiniiThe Darwin's nothura is approximately 26 cm (10 in) in length. Lesser NothuraNothura minorThe lesser nothura is approximately 18 to 20 cm (7.1–7.9 in) in length.

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