page_title: List of birds of Brazil
section_title: Tinamous
hierarchical_section_title: List of birds of Brazil / Tinamous
context_page_description: Brazil has one of the richest bird diversities in the world. The avifauna of Brazil include a total of 1823 confirmed species of which 238 are endemic. Five have been introduced by humans, 78 are rare or vagrants, and four are extinct or extirpated. An additional 21 species are hypothetical.
  Brazil hosts about 60% of the bird species recorded for all of South America. These numbers are still increasing almost every year, due to new occurrences, new species being described, or splits of existing species. About 10% of the bird species found in Brazil are, nonetheless, threatened.
  In June 2013 a simultaneous discovery of fifteen bird species in Brazil was announced, the first such since 1871, when August von Pelzeln described forty new species. The birds were from the families Corvidae, Thamnophilidae, Dendrocolaptidae, Tyrannidae, and Polioptilidae. Eleven of the new species are endemics of Brazil and four also inhabit Peru and Bolivia.
  Except as an entry is cited otherwise, the list of species is that of the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society. The list's taxonomic treatment and nomenclature are also those of the SACC.
context_section_description: Order: Tinamiformes   Family: Tinamidae
  The tinamous are one of the most ancient groups of bird. Although they look similar to other ground-dwelling birds like quail and grouse, they have no close relatives and are classified as a single family, Tinamidae, within their own order, the Tinamiformes. They are distantly related to the ratites (order Struthioniformes), which includes the rheas, emus, and kiwis.
  Gray tinamou, Tinamus tao
  Solitary tinamou, Tinamus solitarius (near-threatened)
  Great tinamou, Tinamus major
  White-throated tinamou, Tinamus guttatus
  Cinereous tinamou, Crypturellus cinereus
  Little tinamou, Crypturellus soui
  Brown tinamou, Crypturellus obsoletus
  Undulated tinamou, Crypturellus undulatus
  Brazilian tinamou, Crypturellus strigulosus
  Gray-legged tinamou, Crypturellus duidae
  Red-legged tinamou, Crypturellus erythropus
  Yellow-legged tinamou, Crypturellus noctivagus (E) (near-threatened)
  Black-capped tinamou, Crypturellus atrocapillus
  Variegated tinamou, Crypturellus variegatus
  Rusty tinamou, Crypturellus brevirostris
  Bartlett's tinamou, Crypturellus bartletti
  Small-billed tinamou, Crypturellus parvirostris
  Tataupa tinamou, Crypturellus tataupa
  Red-winged tinamou, Rhynchotus rufescens
  White-bellied nothura, Nothura boraquira
  Lesser nothura, Nothura minor (vulnerable)
  Spotted nothura, Nothura maculosa
  Dwarf tinamou, Taoniscus nanus (vulnerable)
caption: Little tinamou
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