Order
Tinamiformes
Family
Tinamidae
Genus
Nothura
 
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Version 1.0

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SPECIES

Spotted Nothura Nothura maculosa

Vitor Gomes
Version: 1.0 — Published May 2, 2014

Distribution

Distribution in the Americas

Spotted Nothura is resident over a very large geographic area that extends from central Argentina north through Uruguay and Paraguay to northeastern Brazil.

Distribution outside the Americas

Endemic to the Americas.

Habitat

Spotted Nothura occurs in grasslands, "wherever ground cover is reasonably low and not too dense" (Belton 1984), and also in cultivated fields such as soybeans, corn, wheat, and dry land rice (Sick 1983).

Historical changes

None reported.

Fossil history

None reported.

Distribution of the Spotted Nothura - Range Map
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  • Year-round
  • Migration
  • Breeding
  • Non-Breeding
Distribution of the Spotted Nothura

Recommended Citation

Gomes, V. (2014). Spotted Nothura (Nothura maculosa), version 1.0. In Neotropical Birds Online (T. S. Schulenberg, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/nb.sponot1.01