Great Tinamou
Tinamus major
Taxonomy
- Order
- Tinamiformes
- Family
- Tinamidae
- Genus
- Tinamus
- eBird Code
- gretin1
Vocalizations
Subspecies (12)
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Tinamus major brunneiventris
south-central Panama
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Tinamus major castaneiceps
southwestern Costa Rica and western Panama
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Tinamus major fuscipennis
northern Nicaragua to Costa Rica and western Panama
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Tinamus major latifrons
southwestern Colombia and western Ecuador
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Tinamus major major
eastern Venezuela to the Guianas and northeastern Brazil
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Tinamus major olivascens
Amazonian Brazil south of the Amazon River
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Tinamus major percautus
southeastern Mexico (Yucatan Peninsula) to Petén of Guatemala and Belize
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Tinamus major peruvianus
southeastern Colombia east of the Andes to Bolivia and far western Brazil
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Tinamus major robustus
lowlands of southeastern Mexico to Guatemala and northern Nicaragua
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Tinamus major saturatus
Pacific slope of eastern Panama and northwestern Colombia
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Tinamus major serratus
far southern Venezuela and adjacent northwestern Brazil
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Tinamus major zuliensis
tropical northeastern Colombia and western Venezuela
Data Sources
Bird images and sounds sourced from GBIF, contributed by citizen scientists worldwide under Creative Commons licenses.
Taxonomy data from AviList 2025.