ENGLISH
Great Tinamou are approximately 44 cm (17 in) long, 1.1 kg (2.4 lb) in weight and size and shape of a small turkey. It ranges from light to dark olive-green in color with a whitish throat and belly, flanks barred black, and undertail cinnamon. Crown and neck rufous, occipital crest and supercilium blackish. Its legs are blue-grey in color. All these features enable Great Tinamou to be well-camouflaged in the rainforest understory.
The Great Tinamou has a distinctive call, three short, tremulous, but powerful piping notes which can be heard in its rainforest habitat in the early evenings.

ESPAÑOL
El tinamú grande o tinamú oliváceo (Tinamus major) es una especie de ave nativa de América Central y América del Sur, los tinámidos presentan aproximadamente 47 especies de la Familia Tinamidae. Tiene 43 centímetro de largo, 1.100 gramos de peso y aproximadamente el tamaño y forma de un pavo pequeño. Es de colaración gris-castaño y está bien camuflado para el bosque selvático.

Great Tinamou( Tinamú Grande)

The Napo Wildlife Center offers visitors a number of vantage points from which to admire and experience the spectacular, awe-inspiring diversity of the Amazon Basin. 

Climb the 120-ft. high galvanized-metal stairs to the jungle tower for otherwise impossible eye-to-eye views of canopy dwellers such as monkeys, eagles and macaws…

Spy on clay licks teeming with parrots and occasionally visited by jungle cats or a magnificent elephant-muzzled tapir…

Experience Man’s ageless interaction with the jungle through the native community’s perspective

Enjoy evening walks to witness the astounding nightlife of the dense, entangled understory…

Explore the many trails through “terra firme”, “varzea” and swamp forest in search of the best that Amazonia has to offer
Be it from the ground up, or from the canopy down, from hidden viewing blinds to silent paddling up black-water creeks, we deliver the biggest most intricate picture possible of this wonderful world. 

Napo Wildlife Center not only provides the educated perspective of bilingual guides but also the hands-on knowledge of the true guardians of Añangu, who live and witness the marvels of their jungle home every day. 

Great Tinamou( Tinamú Grande)

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