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tinamou

[ tin-uh-moo ]

noun

  1. any of several birds of the family Tinamidae, of South and Central America, related to the ratite birds but superficially resembling the gallinaceous birds.


tinamou

/ ˈɪəˌː /

noun

  1. any bird of the order Tinamiformes of Central and South America, having small wings, a heavy body, and an inconspicuous plumage
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of tinamou1

First recorded in 1775–85; from French, from Galibi (a Carib language spoken in French Guiana) tinamu
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of tinamou1

C18: via French from Carib (Galibi) tinamu
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Animals such as the tinamou, a bird the local Indigenous people consider sacred, even scarcer.

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Panguana’s name comes from the local word for the undulated tinamou, a species of ground bird common to the Amazon basin.

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He had identified the avian whistleblower as a pale-browed tinamou – which is not native to Colombia.

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It has licences to reintroduce the tapir, the red macaw, the woolly spider monkey and two spectacular birds, the solitary tinamou and the black-fronted piping guan.

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Reid Rumelt, a computational ornithologist, just returned to his D.C. home from the Andes Mountains, where he recorded 3,600 hours of the endangered undulated tinamou.

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