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Great Tinamou (Tinamus major)

Great Tinamou
Photo: Patrick Coin (Patrick Coin) via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5 — free for commercial reuse.

About the Great Tinamou

The great tinamou (Tinamus major) is a species of tinamou ground bird native to Central and South America. There are several subspecies, mostly differentiated by their coloration.

Source: Great tinamou on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA

A real field recording of the Great Tinamou. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.

Listen

Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.

Song (0:12) via xeno-canto.org/251637, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.
Song (0:45) via xeno-canto.org/251636, licensed CC BY-SA — free for commercial use.

2 recordings on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×2 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Honduras and elsewhere · xeno-canto lists 134 recordings for this species in total.

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