Spotted Nothura Nothura maculosa
Spotted Nothura, Jaborandi, Bahia, Brazil, February 2002 - click for larger image Brazil

The Spotted Nothura is one of the better known of the tinamous. It is found from north east Brazil to central Argentina and inhabits savanna, scrub, caatinga as well as agricultural land.

Spotted Nothura, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, August 2004 - click for larger image While it eats seeds including crops such as rice and soya it also feeds on insects and can be found near cattle where it eats both insects disturbed by the cattle and ticks feeding on the cattle.
Spotted Nothura, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, August 2004 - click for larger image Tinamous appear to be a sister group to the ratites, which include the Greater Rhea and they probably shared a common ancestor before the break-up of Gondwanaland. Unlike the ratites, tinamous are only found in the New World (Neotropics) but, like the ratites, the males incubate and rear the young.
Spotted Nothura, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, August 2004 - click for larger image
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