great tinamou
mountain hen
tinamus major latin

The Great Tinamou prefers the rain forests on the slopes.

Unlike some other tinamous, the great tinamou isn't as affected by forest fragmentation.

All these features enable Great Tinamou to be well-camouflaged in the rainforest understory.

Panamanian tradition states that after the "Great Flood", the Great Tinamou grew frightened of the bright colors in the rainbow.

The Great Tinamou has a distinctive call, three short, tremulous, but powerful piping notes which can be heard in its rainforest habitat in the early evenings.

Forest tribes of Brazil and Colombia believe the jaguar imitates the call of the Great Tinamou in order to track and eat it.

The Great Tinamou (Tinamus major) also called Mountain hen is a species of tinamou ground bird native to Central and South America.

Johann Friedrich Gmelin identified the Great Tinamou from a specimen located in Cayenne, French Guyana, in 1789.

The Great Tinamou (Tinamus major) also called Mountain hen is a species of tinamou ground bird native to Central and South America.