Colombian tinamou
| Colombian tinamou | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Infraclass: | Palaeognathae |
| Order: | Tinamiformes |
| Family: | Tinamidae |
| Genus: | Crypturellus |
| Species: | |
| Subspecies: | C. e. columbianus
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| Trinomial name | |
| Crypturellus erythropus columbianus (Salvadori, 1895)
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| Synonyms | |
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Crypturellus columbianus (Salvadori, 1895) | |
The Colombian tinamou (Crypturellus erythropus columbianus) is a tinamou found in Córdoba, Sucre, Bolívar, and Antioquia in north-central Colombia. Little is known about it. It occurs in lowland moist forest and shrubland at elevation up to 600 m (2,000 ft).
It is sometimes treated as a distinct species, and sometimes as a subspecies of the red-legged tinamou. The SACC rejected a proposal to elevate it to species status, arguing that the presently available data fail to support the split. BirdLife International followed this treatment; hence the Colombian tinamou has been dropped from the 2007 IUCN Red List.