Stats

Lifespan

10-15 yrs

Size

Medium

Diet

Omnivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Flock

Biome

Temperate grassland

Range

South America

Movement

Walking

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Camouflage

Status

Rare

About

The Elegant Crested-Tinamou is a medium-sized bird found in southern Chile and Argentina, and it spends most of its time on the ground. Despite its poor flying ability, this bird has an omnivorous diet and can run at speeds of 20 mph!

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg

   A clutch of eggs is incubated in the nest, kept warm by a brooding parent until the chicks pip free.
2. 2.
   hatchling

   A naked or downy hatchling is fed in the nest by its parents.
3. 3.
   juvenile

   A feathered juvenile fledges from the nest and learns to fly and forage.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown with adult plumage.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Aves

Order

Tinamiformes

Family

Tinamidae

Genus

Eudromia

Species

Eudromia elegans