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Tataupa Tinamou
Crypturellus tataupa | Temminck, 1815

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Characterization: Small to medium-size species measuring about 24cm in length. It has dark brown coloration and a red beak; the male is considerably smaller than the female, and the edge of the female's beak is black. It resembles the Small-Billed Tinamou (Crypturellus parvirostris). 

Distribution: Northeast, East, South and Midwest of Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina.

Habitat: Secondary forests, dry coppices, scrublands, and sugarcane fields.

Habits: Diurnal, terrestrial and takes flight only as a last resort. It does not use its fingers to grip, not even on finer perches, balancing itself using its body weight. When threatened, they play dead.

Diet: Essentially frugivorous, feeding on berries, fallen fruits, leaves, hard seeds, and also on small arthropods.

Breeding: This bird lays its eggs in a cavity on the ground, near a clump of grass.

In the UFRA area: It is considered medially frequent, since it was seen 31 times in all surveys done. This bird species had an broad distribution in the habitats, being spotted in 9 of 10 of them. It was been spotted in the organic sugarcane fields, exotic woods, wetlands with riparian forests, in mixed forests in regeneration, native forests, in drainage ditches, in forests in spontaneous regeneration, and in fields in spontaneous regeneration.