Little Tinamou

     The Little Tinamou is a small, cryptic Tinamou, which inhabits north-western South America, the Amazon and Orinoco basins, and southeaster Brazil’s Atlantic rainforest. It’s a plain greyish buff bird, lacking much of the barring patterns of other tinamou species, and it has grey, olive or yellow legs according to the subspecies.

     The Little tinamou is a shy, secretive and solitary bird, which is small too as the name indicates. Its breeding season varies regionally but it breeds year around in Costa Rica. The female Little tinamou usually lays 2 glossy dark purple colored eggs, sometimes only one. The male incubates the eggs alone for almost 16 days and cares for the chicks until they become fully independent.