Peruvian Hooded Tinamou

Nothocercus nigrocapillus cadwaladeri

Classification

Class: Aves
Order: Tinamiformes
Family: Tinamidae

Nothocercus is a genus of birds in the tinamou family. This genus comprises three species of this South American family. Nothocercus julius (the tawny-breasted tinamou) occupies humid montane forest at middle to high elevations in the Andes from Venezuela south to Peru.

Distribution

Peruvian Hooded Tinamou — (c) Thibaud Aronson, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), uploaded by Thibaud Aronson · CC-BY-SA

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

Peru · 1

Sources and credits

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Peruvian Hooded Tinamou

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