Highland tinamou

Highland tinamou
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Infraclass: Palaeognathae
Order: Tinamiformes
Family: Tinamidae
Genus: Nothocercus
Species:
N. bonapartei
Binomial name
Nothocercus bonapartei
(G.R. Gray, 1867)[2]
Subspecies[2]

N. b. frantzii (Lawrence, 1868)
N. b. bonapartei
(Gray, GR, 1867)
N. b. discrepans
(Friedmann, 1947)
N. b. intercedens
(Salvadori, 1895)
N. b. plumbeiceps
(Lönnberg & Rendahl, 1922)

Synonyms

Tinamus bonapartei[3]

The highland tinamou or Bonaparte's tinamou (Nothocercus bonapartei) is a type of ground bird found in montane moist forest typically over 1,500 m (4,900 ft) altitude.

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2016). "Nothocercus bonapartei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2016: e.T22678154A92758475. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22678154A92758475.en. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b Brands, S. (2008)
  3. ^ American Ornithologists' Union (1998)