Order
Tinamiformes
Family
Tinamidae
Genus
Nothura
 
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Spotted Nothura Nothura maculosa

Vitor Gomes
Version: 1.0 — Published May 2, 2014

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Introduction

Spotted Nothura is a grassland tinamou with a large range that extends from central Argentina north through Uruguay and Paraguay to northeastern Brazil. Overall this small tinamou is cryptically patterned with brown and black mottling on a pale brownish base color, which provides camouflage in terrestrial grassland situations. The species looks quite similar to the closely related Chaco Nothura (Nothura chacoensis) of northern Paraguay and Argentina, but Spotted Nothura is darker overall. Eight subspecies of Spotted Nothura are recognized, which may form a cline from smaller, darker birds in the north to larger, paler birds in the south.

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