| IOC English Name | Scientific Name | Range | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|
ORDER TINAMIFORMES |
PHY : Tinamous (with moas) are the outgroup to the traditional ratites (Baker et al 2010, Haddrath & Baker 2012; cf Hackett et al. 2008) | ||
Tinamous (47) |
Family Tinamidae |
||
| Grey Tinamou | Tinamus tao Temminck, 1815 | SA : Amazonia | |
| T. t. larensis Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1949 | c Colombia, nw Venezuela | ||
| T. t. septentrionalis Brabourne & Chubb, 1913 | ne Venezuela, nw Guyana | ||
| T. t. tao Temminck, 1815 | nc Brazil | ||
| T. t. kleei (Tschudi, 1843) | sc Colombia to e Bolivia and w Brazil | ||
| Solitary Tinamou | Tinamus solitarius (Vieillot, 1819) | SA : se | |
| T. s. pernambucensis Berla, 1946 | ec Brazil | ||
| T. s. solitarius (Vieillot, 1819) | e Brazil, Paraguay, ne Argentina | ||
| Black Tinamou | Tinamus osgoodi Conover, 1949 | SA : sc Colombia, se Peru | |
| T. o. hershkovitzi Blake, 1953 | sc Colombia | ||
| T. o. osgoodi Conover, 1949 | se Peru | ||
| Great Tinamou | Tinamus major (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | LA : s Mexico through Amazonia | |
| T. m. robustus Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1868 | se Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras | ||
| T. m. percautus van Tyne, 1935 | s Mexico, n Guatemala, Belize | ||
| T. m. fuscipennis Salvadori, 1895 | n Nicaragua to w Panama | ||
| T. m. brunneiventris Aldrich, 1937 | sc Panama | ||
| T. m. castaneiceps Salvadori, 1895 | sw Costa Rica, w Panama | ||
| T. m. saturatus Griscom, 1929 | e Panama, nw Colombia | ||
| T. m. zuliensis Osgood & Conover, 1922 | ne Colombia, n Venezuela | ||
| T. m. latifrons Salvadori, 1895 | sw Colombia, w Ecuador | ||
| T. m. major (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | e Venezuela to ne Brazil | ||
| T. m. serratus (von Spix, 1825) | nw Brazil | ||
| T. m. olivascens Conover, 1937 | Amazonian Brazil | ||
| T. m. peruvianus Bonaparte, 1856 | se Colombia to Bolivia and w Brazil | ||
| White-throated Tinamou | Tinamus guttatus Pelzeln, 1863 | SA : Amazonia | |
| Highland Tinamou | Nothocercus bonapartei (Gray, GR, 1867) | LA : Costa Rica to Peru | |
| N. b. frantzii (Lawrence, 1868) | Costa Rica, w Panama | ||
| N. b. bonapartei (Gray, GR, 1867) | nc Colombia, w Venezuela | ||
| N. b. intercedens Salvadori, 1895 | w Colombia | ||
| N. b. discrepans Friedmann, 1947 | e Colombia | ||
| N. b. plumbeiceps Lönnberg & Rendahl, 1922 | e Ecuador, n Peru | ||
| Tawny-breasted Tinamou | Nothocercus julius (Bonaparte, 1854) | SA : Venezuela to Peru | |
| Hooded Tinamou | Nothocercus nigrocapillus (Gray, GR, 1867) | SA : Peru, Bolivia | |
| N. n. cadwaladeri Carriker, 1933 | nw Peru | ||
| N. n. nigrocapillus (Gray, GR, 1867) | c Peru to n Bolivia | ||
| Berlepsch's Tinamou | Crypturellus berlepschi (Rothschild, 1897) | SA : nw Colombia, Ecuador | |
| Cinereous Tinamou | Crypturellus cinereus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | SA : Amazonia | |
| Little Tinamou | Crypturellus soui (Hermann, 1783) | LA : s Mexico to e Brazil | |
| C. s. meserythrus (Sclater, PL, 1860) | s Mexico to se Nicaragua | ||
| C. s. modestus (Cabanis, 1869) | Costa Rica, w Panama | ||
| C. s. capnodes Wetmore, 1963 | nw Panama | ||
| C. s. poliocephalus (Aldrich, 1937) | Panama (Pacific Slope) | ||
| C. s. panamensis (Carriker, 1910) | Panama | ||
| C. s. mustelinus (Bangs, 1905) | ne Colombia, nw Venezuela | ||
| C. s. soui (Hermann, 1783) | e Colombia to ne Brazil | ||
| C. s. andrei (Brabourne & Chubb, 1914) | Trinidad, ne Venezuela | ||
| C. s. caucae (Chapman, 1912) | nc Colombia | ||
| C. s. harterti (Brabourne & Chubb, 1914) | w Colombia, w Ecuador | ||
| C. s. caquetae (Chapman, 1915) | se Colombia | ||
| C. s. nigriceps (Chapman, 1923) | e Ecuador, ne Peru | ||
| C. s. albigularis (Brabourne & Chubb, 1914) | n and e Brazil | ||
| C. s. inconspicuus Carriker, 1935 | c Peru to e Bolivia | ||
| Tepui Tinamou | Crypturellus ptaritepui Zimmer & Phelps, 1945 | SA : Venezuela | |
| Brown Tinamou | Crypturellus obsoletus (Temminck, 1815) | SA : Widespread | |
| C. o. cerviniventris (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1873) | n Venezuela | ||
| C. o. knoxi Phelps Jr, 1976 | nw Venezuela | ||
| C. o. castaneus (Sclater, PL, 1858) | e Colombia to n Peru | ||
| C. o. ochraceiventris (Stolzmann, 1926) | c Peru | ||
| C. o. traylori Blake, 1961 | se Peru | ||
| C. o. punensis (Chubb, 1918) | se Peru, n Bolivia | ||
| C. o. griseiventris (Salvadori, 1895) | nc Brazil | ||
| C. o. hypochraceus (Miranda-Ribeiro, 1938) | sw Brazil | ||
| C. o. obsoletus (Temminck, 1815) | s Brazil, Paraguay, ne Argentina | ||
| Undulated Tinamou | Crypturellus undulatus (Temminck, 1815) | SA : Amazonia, sc | |
| C. u. manapiare Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1952 | s Venezuela | ||
| C. u. simplex (Salvadori, 1895) | s Guyana, nc Brazil | ||
| C. u. yapura (von Spix, 1825) | w Amazonia | ||
| C. u. adspersus (Temminck, 1815) | c Brazil | ||
| C. u. vermiculatus (Temminck, 1825) | e Brazil | ||
| C. u. undulatus (Temminck, 1815) | se Peru to n Argentina | ||
| Pale-browed Tinamou | Crypturellus transfasciatus (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1878) | SA : w Ecuador, nw Peru | |
| Brazilian Tinamou | Crypturellus strigulosus (Temminck, 1815) | SA : e Peru to e Brazil | |
| Grey-legged Tinamou | Crypturellus duidae Zimmer, 1938 | SA : Venezuela, Colombia | |
| Red-legged Tinamou | Crypturellus erythropus (Pelzeln, 1863) | SA : n | |
| C. e. cursitans Wetmore & Phelps Jr, 1956 | n Colombia, nw Venezuela | ||
| C. e. idoneus (Todd, 1919) | ne Colombia, nw Venezuela | ||
| C. e. columbianus (Salvadori, 1895) | nc Colombia | ||
| C. e. saltuarius Wetmore, 1950 | Magdalena Prov. (nc Colombia) | ||
| C. e. spencei (Brabourne & Chubb, 1914) | n Venezuela | ||
| C. e. margaritae Phelps & Phelps Jr, 1948 | Margarita I. (off Venezuela) | ||
| C. e. erythropus (Pelzeln, 1863) | e Venezuela to ne Brazil | ||
| Yellow-legged Tinamou | Crypturellus noctivagus (Wied-Neuwied, 1820) | SA : e Brazil | |
| C. n. zabele (von Spix, 1825) | ne Brazil | ||
| C. n. noctivagus (Wied-Neuwied, 1820) | se Brazil | ||
| Black-capped Tinamou | Crypturellus atrocapillus (Tschudi, 1844) | SA : Peru, Bolivia | |
| C. a. atrocapillus (Tschudi, 1844) | se Peru | ||
| C. a. garleppi (Berlepsch, 1892) | n Bolivia | ||
| Thicket Tinamou | Crypturellus cinnamomeus (Lesson, 1842) | MA : wc Mexico to Costa Rica | AS : Crypturellus cinnamomeus is a split from C. erythropus, H&M,BLI, AOU (1998) |
| C. c. occidentalis (Salvadori, 1895) | wc Mexico | ||
| C. c. mexicanus (Salvadori, 1895) | ec Mexico | ||
| C. c. soconuscensis Brodkorb, 1939 | sw Mexico | ||
| C. c. vicinior Conover, 1933 | s Mexico to c Honduras | ||
| C. c. sallaei (Bonaparte, 1856) | s Mexico | ||
| C. c. goldmani (Nelson, 1901) | se Mexico, n Guatemala, n Belize | ||
| C. c. cinnamomeus (Lesson, 1842) | s Guatemala, El Salvador, s Honduras | ||
| C. c. delattrii (Bonaparte, 1854) | w Nicaragua | ||
| C. c. praepes (Bangs & Peters, JL, 1927) | nw Costa Rica | ||
| Slaty-breasted Tinamou | Crypturellus boucardi (Sclater, PL, 1860) | MA : s Mexico to Costa Rica | AS : Crypturellus boucardi is split from C. erythropus; H&M, BLI, and AOU (1998) |
| C. b. boucardi (Sclater, PL, 1860) | s Mexico to nw Honduras | ||
| C. b. costaricensis (Dwight & Griscom, 1924) | n and e Honduras to Costa Rica | ||
| Choco Tinamou | Crypturellus kerriae (Chapman, 1915) | LA : Panama, Colombia | |
| Variegated Tinamou | Crypturellus variegatus (Gmelin, JF, 1789) | SA : Amazonia, e Brazil | |
| Rusty Tinamou | Crypturellus brevirostris (Pelzeln, 1863) | SA : ne, w Amazonia | |
| Bartlett's Tinamou | Crypturellus bartletti (Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1873) | SA : w Amazonia | |
| Small-billed Tinamou | Crypturellus parvirostris (Wagler, 1827) | SA : c, e | |
| Barred Tinamou | Crypturellus casiquiare (Chapman, 1929) | SA : e Colombia, s Venezuela | |
| Tataupa Tinamou | Crypturellus tataupa (Temminck, 1815) | SA : e, se, sc | |
| C. t. inops Bangs & Noble, 1918 | sw Ecuador, nw Peru | ||
| C. t. lepidotus (Swainson, 1837) | ne Brazil | ||
| C. t. peruvianus (Cory, 1915) | c Peru | ||
| C. t. tataupa (Temminck, 1815) | n and e Bolivia to s Brazil, Paraguay and n Argentina | ||
| Red-winged Tinamou | Rhynchotus rufescens (Temminck, 1815) | SA : e, se, sc | |
| R. r. catingae Reiser, 1905 | c and ne Brazil | ||
| R. r. pallescens Kothe, 1907 | ne and c Argentina | ||
| R. r. rufescens (Temminck, 1815) | n Bolivia to e Brazil, Paraguay, ne Argentina and Uruguay | ||
| Huayco Tinamou | Rhynchotus maculicollis Gray, GR, 1867 | SA : nw Bolivia, nw Argentina | |
| Taczanowski's Tinamou | Nothoprocta taczanowskii Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1875 | SA : Peru | |
| Ornate Tinamou | Nothoprocta ornata (Gray, GR, 1867) | SA : Peru to n Chile and nw Argentina | TAX : Nothoprocta kalinowskii is a synonym of N. ornata (Krabbe & Schulenberg 2005; SACC 246) |
| N. o. branickii Taczanowski, 1875 | c Peru | ||
| N. o. ornata (Gray, GR, 1867) | s Peru, ne Bolivia | ||
| N. o. jimenezi Cabot, J, 1997 | nw Bolivia | ||
| N. o. labradori Cabot, J, 1997 | e Bolivia | ||
| N. o. rostrata Berlepsch, 1907 | se Bolivia, n Chile, nw Argentina | ||
| Chilean Tinamou | Nothoprocta perdicaria (Kittlitz, 1830) | SA : Chile | |
| N. p. perdicaria (Kittlitz, 1830) | nc Chile | ||
| N. p. sanborni Conover, 1924 | sc Chile | ||
| Brushland Tinamou | Nothoprocta cinerascens (Burmeister, 1860) | SA : Southern Cone | |
| N. c. cinerascens (Burmeister, 1860) | se Bolivia to nw Paraguay and c Argentina | ||
| N. c. parvimaculata Olrog, 1959 | nw Argentina | ||
| Andean Tinamou | Nothoprocta pentlandii (Gray, GR, 1867) | SA : Ecuador to c Argentina | |
| N. p. ambigua Cory, 1915 | s Ecuador, nw Peru | ||
| N. p. niethammeri Koepcke, 1968 | wc Peru | ||
| N. p. oustaleti Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1901 | c and s Peru | ||
| N. p. fulvescens Berlepsch, 1902 | se Peru | ||
| N. p. pentlandii (Gray, GR, 1867) | w Bolivia, nw Argentina, n Chile | ||
| N. p. mendozae Banks & Bohl, 1968 | wc Argentina | ||
| N. p. doeringi Cabanis, 1878 | c Argentina | ||
| Curve-billed Tinamou | Nothoprocta curvirostris Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1873 | SA : Ecuador, Peru | |
| N. c. curvirostris Sclater, PL & Salvin, 1873 | c Ecuador to n Peru | ||
| N. c. peruviana Taczanowski, 1886 | n and c Peru | ||
| White-bellied Nothura | Nothura boraquira (von Spix, 1825) | SA : se | |
| Lesser Nothura | Nothura minor (von Spix, 1825) | SA : se Brazil | |
| Darwin's Nothura | Nothura darwinii Gray, GR, 1867 | SA : Peru to sc Argentina | |
| N. d. peruviana Berlepsch & Stolzmann, 1906 | s Peru | ||
| N. d. agassizii Bangs, 1910 | se Peru, w Bolivia | ||
| N. d. boliviana Salvadori, 1895 | w Bolivia | ||
| N. d. salvadorii Hartert, 1909 | w Argentina | ||
| N. d. darwinii Gray, GR, 1867 | sc Argentina | ||
| Spotted Nothura | Nothura maculosa (Temminck, 1815) | SA : se | |
| N. m. cearensis Naumburg, 1932 | ne Brazil | ||
| N. m. major (von Spix, 1825) | ec Brazil | ||
| N. m. paludivaga Conover, 1950 | c Paraguay, nc Argentina | ||
| N. m. maculosa (Temminck, 1815) | se Brazil to e Paraguay, ne Argentina and Uruguay | ||
| N. m. pallida Olrog, 1959 | nw Argentina | ||
| N. m. annectens Conover, 1950 | e Argentina | ||
| N. m. submontana Conover, 1950 | sw Argentina | ||
| N. m. nigroguttata Salvadori, 1895 | sc Argentina | ||
| Chaco Nothura | Nothura chacoensis Conover, 1937 | SA : nw Paraguay, nc Argentina | |
| Dwarf Tinamou | Taoniscus nanus (Temminck, 1815) | SA : se Brazil, ne Argentina | |
| Elegant Crested Tinamou | Eudromia elegans Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I, 1832 | SA : Southern Cone | |
| E. e. intermedia (Dabbene & Lillo, 1913) | nw Argentina | ||
| E. e. magnistriata Olrog, 1959 | nc Argentina | ||
| E. e. riojana Olrog, 1959 | wc Argentina | ||
| E. e. albida (Wetmore, 1921) | wc Argentina | ||
| E. e. wetmorei Banks, 1977 | w Argentina | ||
| E. e. numida Banks, 1977 | c Argentina | ||
| E. e. elegans Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I, 1832 | sc Argentina | ||
| E. e. multiguttata Conover, 1950 | ec Argentina | ||
| E. e. devia Conover, 1950 | sw Argentina | ||
| E. e. patagonica Conover, 1950 | s Chile, s Argentina | ||
| Quebracho Crested Tinamou | Eudromia formosa (Lillo, 1905) | SA : Paraguay, n Argentina | |
| Puna Tinamou | Tinamotis pentlandii Vigors, 1837 | SA : wc | |
| Patagonian Tinamou | Tinamotis ingoufi Oustalet, 1890 | SA : Southern Cone | |
ORDER STRUTHIONIFORMES |
|||
Ostriches (2) |
Family Struthionidae |
||
| Common Ostrich | Struthio camelus Linnaeus, 1758 | AF : w, c, e, sw | |
| S. c. syriacus † Rothschild, 1919 |
Syrian and Arabian Deserts | ||
| S. c. camelus Linnaeus, 1758 | s Morocco and Mauritania to s Egypt and n and w Ethiopia, south to Cameroon and n Uganda | ||
| S. c. massaicus Neumann, 1898 | s Kenya and c Tanzania | ||
| S. c. australis Gurney, 1868 | s Africa | ||
| Somali Ostrich | Struthio molybdophanes Reichenow, 1883 | AF : Somalia, n Kenya | AS : Genetic analyses support species recognition of Somali Ostrich and perhaps other subspecies groups (Miller et al 2010) |
ORDER RHEIFORMES |
|||
Rheas (2) |
Family Rheidae |
||
| Greater Rhea | Rhea americana (Linnaeus, 1758) | SA : se | |
| R. a. americana (Linnaeus, 1758) | n and e Brazil | ||
| R. a. intermedia Rothschild & Chubb, 1914 | se Brazil, Uruguay | ||
| R. a. nobilis Brodkorb, 1939 | e Paraguay | ||
| R. a. araneipes Brodkorb, 1938 | sw Brazil, e Bolivia, w Paraguay | ||
| R. a. albescens Lynch & Holmberg, 1878 | ne and e Argentina | ||
| Lesser Rhea | Rhea pennata d'Orbigny, 1834 | SA : Southern Cone | TAX, ENG : Genus Pterocnemia merged into Rhea (SACC 348); CHANGE English name to Lesser Rhea to conform to general usage |
| R. p. garleppi (Chubb, 1913) | se Peru, sw Bolivia, nw Argentina | ||
| R. p. tarapacensis (Chubb, 1913) | n Chile | ||
| R. p. pennata d'Orbigny, 1834 | s Chile, wc and s Argentina | ||
ORDER CASUARIIFORMES |
|||
Cassowaries (3) |
Family Casuariidae |
||
| Southern Cassowary | Casuarius casuarius (Linnaeus, 1758) | AU : New Guinea, ne Australia, Aru Is. | |
| Dwarf Cassowary | Casuarius bennetti Gould, 1857 | AU : New Guinea, Yapen I., New Britain | |
| Northern Cassowary | Casuarius unappendiculatus Blyth, 1860 | AU : New Guinea, Yapen I., Sulawati I. | |
Emu (1) |
Family Dromaiidae |
||
| Emu | Dromaius novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790) | AU : Australia | |
| D. n. rothschildi Mathews, 1912 | sw Australia | ||
| D. n. novaehollandiae (Latham, 1790) | Australia except sw | ||
| D. n. diemenensis † Le Souef, 1907 |
Tasmania | EXT : | |
| D. n. ater † Vieillot, 1817 |
King I. (Australia) |
EXT : |
|
| D. n. baudinianus † Parker, SA, 1984 |
Kangaroo I. (Australia) | EXT : | |
ORDER APTERYGIFORMES |
|||
Kiwis (5) |
Family Apterygidae |
||
| Southern Brown Kiwi | Apteryx australis Shaw, 1813 | AU : New Zealand | |
| A. a. australis Shaw, 1813 | sw South I. | ||
| A. a. lawryi Rothschild, 1893 | Stewart I. | ||
| North Island Brown Kiwi | Apteryx mantelli Bartlett, 1852 | AU : North I. (New Zealand) | |
| Okarito Kiwi | Apteryx rowi Tennyson, Palma, Robertson, Worthy & Gill, 2003 | AU : w South I. (New Zealand) | |
| Little Spotted Kiwi | Apteryx owenii Gould, 1847 | AU : Kapiti I., South I. (New Zealand) | |
| Great Spotted Kiwi | Apteryx haastii Potts, 1872 | AU : w South I. (New Zealand) |