What is Tinama?

Tinamy is a small, mostly grounding bird that is very similar to partridge. In the family it is originally from South and Central America, in the family there are about 50 individual species. In various types of tinama, birds range in size from 8 to 20 inches (about 20 to 53 cm) and have similarly built bodies. The species can be found on pastures, thickets, forests and savannas at almost all heights, every species with a unique niche.

Members of the Tinama family have rounded bodies, squat and compact. Their assembly makes it difficult and difficult to make it difficult and can only be maintained at short distances. Their main defense against predators therefore runs or freezes and relies on their masked feathers to mask them. Tinamy camouflage works so well that it can be a difficult bird for people to appear against dense leaves that tend to prefer.

Although tinamy resembles an Akura or Korok, it is related to other birds living from soil such as ostrich or rhea. Tinamn are one of the oldest birds in America andFossil records suggest that they have been prospering for tens of millions of years. The attempts were made to introduce this perennial, ancient bird to other areas of the world, but this effort was largely unsuccessful. Many varieties, such as red -winged tinama, have been successfully bred and brought up in captivity.

Tinamous reproduction period varies between species, but it is a male bird across the family that not only sits on eggs after they have been laid, but protects young birds after hatching. Female birds can take more partners in one season and lay eggs in nests more than one man. The chickens develop quickly and are able to find their own food within a few days of their hatching -colored egg. At the first hatch, chickens are capable of flight; This is a characteristic that they gradually lose when they mature. The fetal size also varies between species and some may have a dozen eggs in one nest.

diEty Tinamous are wide and diverse and include insects and worms in warmer summer months and roots and seeds in winter. Birds are usually active during the day, and those who live in colder areas are digging snow to find food in winter. Tinamous himself is often hunted as gaming birds.