Order
Tinamiformes
Family
Tinamidae
Genus
Crypturellus
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Pale-browed Tinamou Crypturellus transfasciatus

Vitor Gomes and Guy M. Kirwan
Version: 1.0 — Published February 28, 2014

Breeding

Introduction

There is very little information about the reproductive biology of Pale-browed Tinamou. Marchant (1960) reported a nest with eggs from southwestern Ecuador in May; otherwise eggs are reported from Ecuador from 26 November to 20 February (Pässler 1938). The nest itself is not described, but presumably is little more than a scrape on the ground; the siting of the one known nest was "on the ground at the foot of a large tree" (Marchant 1960). The only information on clutch size comes from this nest, which contained seven eggs. Marchant (1960) described the color of egg as a uniform pale grayish mauve; the one egg he measured has dimensions of 46.7 x 37.7 mm. The range of dimensions of eggs reported by Pässler (1938) were 38.5-45 mm x 29.0-34.5 mm (n = 40).

Recommended Citation

Gomes, V. and G. M. Kirwan (2014). Pale-browed Tinamou (Crypturellus transfasciatus), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.pabtin1.01