Tinamus major has a wide distribution within the Neotropics, with 12 recognised subspecies. Subspecies
robustus occurs in south-east
Mexico, east
Guatemala and
Honduras, overlapping with
percautus, also occuring in south-east Mexico as well as north Guatemala and
Belize. Subspecies
fuscipennis ranges from north
Nicaragua through
Costa Rica to west
Panama, overlapping with
castaneiceps which occurs in south-west Costa Rica and west Panama. Subspecies
brunneiventris is endemic to south-central Panama. Subspecies
saturatus occurs in east Panama and north-west
Colombia. Subspecies
latifrons is distributed in south-west Colombia and west
Ecuador, where it is uncommon to rare (del Hoyo
et al. 1992, Restall
et al. 2006). Subspecies
zuliensis occurs in north-east Colombia and north
Venezuela. Subspecies
peruvianus ranges from south-east Colombia and east Ecuador through
Peru to north-east
Bolivia and extreme west
Brazil. Subspecies
serratus is endemic to north-west Brazil. The nominate subspecies
major ranges from east Venezuela through
Guyana,
Suriname and
French Guiana to north-east Brazil (del Hoyo
et al. 1992); this taxon is abundant where forest is intact (Restall
et al. 2006). Subspecies
olivascens occurs in Amazonian Brazil (del Hoyo
et al. 1992).
Rights Holder: International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources
Bibliographic Citation: BirdLife International 2012.
Tinamus major. In: IUCN 2014 . IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.1 . <
www.iucnredlist.org>
