📸 PhotoPhoto: David F. Belmonte · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons Source
Red-winged Tinamou
Rhynchotus rufescens (Red-winged Tinamou · アカバネシギダチョウ)
💡 Everyday Comparisons for Size, Mass & Speed
- 💡 Heavily hunted in wet grasslands and pastures, it is extremely wary of people and utters calls like 'chirip, joo joo joo' all day long (eBird).
- 💡 Although hunting and grass fires have reduced its numbers, it remains fairly common across a wide range (Birds of the World).
Reference standards: coach bus ~12 m, mid-size car ~4.9 m, compact car ~1 t, basketball hoop 3.05 m, credit card 8.56 cm.
📖 1. Overview
The Red-winged Tinamou is a plump tinamou living in wetlands, grasslands, and farmlands of South America east of the Andes, and remains common across a wide area.
🦴 2. Anatomy & Morphology
It has a rounded body with dense black barring across its brown wings and back, a reddish-brown head with a dark crown, and a thick, slightly curved bill. It can raise the feathers on its crown.
🔍 3. Ecology & Behavior
It rarely flies, and when it does, it flies only short, heavy distances on rusty-colored wings. Heavily hunted, it is very shy and gives a descending repetitive call throughout the day.
🇰🇷 4. Connection to Korea
No direct record connecting this species to Korea has been found.
📚 Sources & References
- • IUCN Red List LC (2021) — https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/22733941/191566346
- • IUCN Red List category LC — latest assessment at iucnredlist.org
- • doi.org — avilist.v2026
- • iucnredlist.org — 191566346
- • wikidata.org — Q733485
- • commons.wikimedia.org — File:Rhynchotus rufescens 0.jpeg
- • birdsoftheworld.org — introduction
- • ebird.org — rewtin1
- • Silhouette: PhyloPic — J. N. Wiegers · CC BY 4.0 (Related taxon silhouette — Crypturellus variegatus)
Recorded dimensions are widely cited representative estimates from public literature and may vary by study or specimen.