Puna chicken

Puna chicken
Punate Grouse ( Tinamotis pentlandii )
Systematics
Class : Birds (aves) Subclass : Great Pine Birds (Palaeognathae) Order : Cockles (tinamiformes) Family : Cockroaches (Tinamidae) Genre : Three- toed partridge ( Tinamotis ) Type : Puna chicken
Scientific name
Tinamotis pentlandii
Vigors , 1837

The Punas grouse ( Tinamotis pentlandii ) is a species of cockchafer from the subfamily of the steppe grouse (Rhynchotinae). The specific epithet pentlandii honors the Irish scientist and traveler Joseph Barclay Pentland .

description

The Punas grouse is one of the larger representatives of the cocktails and reaches a body length of 42 cm. There is no gender dimorphism between the sexes . Its upper side is grayish-brown and mottled with cinnamon-yellow-brown, the lower back, rump and tail are usually light yellowish- olive in color . The wing covers and arm wings show a cinnamon-yellow-brown banding, the hand wings are dull brown. The chest, sides and flanks are banded greyish-brown and lush yellow-brown. The lower abdomen, the lower flanks and the lower rump are colored cinnamon-red-brown. The head and neck are markedly whitish and soot-brown and appear broadly striped, the throat is monochrome white or whitish. The iris and beak are brown. The feet are light greenish, the rear toe is missing.

Fledglings are similar to the adult Punas chickens. The back is more strongly spotted, the ventral banding sparser and less strongly pronounced. The color of the abdomen is paler.

Habitat and Distribution

The Punas grouse is an inhabitant of high-lying grassland and the dry, bushy or rocky Puna of the Andes above 3900 m in tropical and subtropical regions. It lives in Peru , Bolivia , northern Chile, and northwestern Argentina .

Danger

The IUCN list classifies this species as not endangered (Least Concern, LC) because of its apparently stable population and large range.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Juan Carlos Chebez, Alejandro Mouchard, Lucas Rodríguez: Ornitonimia popular y científica de las aves argentinas II (TINAMIFORMES, Sphenisciformes y Podicipediformes). In: Nótulas Faunísticas - Segunda Serie, 65 (2011), p. 6.
2. ^ Sharon R. Chester: A Wildlife Guide to Chile: Continental Chile, Chilean Antarctica, Easter Island, Juan Fernandez Archipelago. , Princeton University Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0691129761 , p. 130.
3. ^ ^{A b} Thomas S. Schulenberg: Birds of Peru. Princeton University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0691130231 , p. 36.
4. ^ ^{A b} Emmet Reid Blake: Manual of Neotropical Birds. University of Chicago Press, 1977, ISBN 978-0226056418 , p. 76.
5. ↑ BirdLife International Species factsheet: Tinamotis pentlandii . 2011. ( Online , accessed June 24, 2011)
6. ↑ Tinamotis pentlandii in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2010.4. Listed by: BirdLife International, 2009. Retrieved February 25, 2011.

Web links

Commons : Punate Grouse ( Tinamotis pentlandii )  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tinamotis pentlandii inthe IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2011.2. Listed by: BirdLife International, 2009. Retrieved December 21, 2011.
• BirdLife International: Species Factsheet - Puna Tinamou ( Tinamotis pentlandii ) . Retrieved December 21, 2011.
• Videos, photos and sound recordings of Puna Tinamou (Tinamotis pentlandii) in the Internet Bird Collection
• Tinamotis pentlandii at Avibase
• Tinamotis pentlandii in the Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)
• xeno-canto: Sound recordings - Puna Tinamou ( Tinamotis pentlandii )
• Sheila Brands: Systema Naturae 2000 (accessed September 23, 2011)
• Clements The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World. ISBN 0-7876-5784-0 online