Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Little Tinamou FAMILY - Tinamidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Crypturellus soui SYNONYMS - Tinamus soui- Herman 1783 REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Resident, species present all year. 34 Common: high density, likely to be seen in many places 35 Apparently secure in Belize 35 Resident, species present all year. 3 Resident, species present all year. 34 District Reference Belize 3 Cayo 5 Corozal 12 Orange Walk 20 Stann Creek 7 Toledo 4 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve 12 Manatee Forest Reserve Dry season 7 Commerce Bight Forest Reserve Heard Dry season 33 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Dry season 5 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve Wet season 19 Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve 23 Chiquibul Forest Reserve 16 Chiquibul Forest Reserve 17 Chiquibul Forest Reserve 22 Chiquibul Forest Reserve 8 Columbia River Forest Reserve Sighting Dry season 4 Shipstern Nature Reserve 15 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Wet season 20 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 30 Gallon Jug 19 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary 29 Tapir Mtn. Nature Reserve 24 Chiquibul National Park Heard Wet season 8 Chiquibul National Park 22 Chiquibul National Park 23 Chiquibul National Park 32 Bladen Nature Reserve Dry season 13 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary 18 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary 14 Community Baboon Sanctuary Heard Dry season 21 Community Baboon Sanctuary 27 Altun Ha Archaeological Reserve Dry season 32 Caracol Archaeological Reserve Dry season 10 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) Permanent 11 Northern Lagoon/Southern Lagoon (Prop Dry season 19 Private land, see comments Collected as voucher 29 Private land, see comments Heard Dry season 19 Private land, see comments Dry season 9 Private land, see comments 29 Government land Heard Wet season 32 Government land Dry season 33 Government land 29 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 30 Belize River 27 Roaring Creek 24 Macal River 5 Bladen Branch 13 Mullins River Drainage 7 Chiquibul River 8 Mussel Creek 11 Sibun River 14 Raspaculo River 16 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 29 1-200 m 30 1-200 m 31 1-200 m 32 1-200 m 33 201-400 m 33 601-800 m 32 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 32 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 19 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 20 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 21 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 27 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 29 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 30 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 11 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 31 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 14 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 31 17 00' to 17 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 9 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 24 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 31 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 6 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 31 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 30' to 88 45' 6 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 19 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 29 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 33 17 00' to 17 15'; 88 00' to 88 30' 7 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 10 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 22 16 45' to 17 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 23 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 19 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 5 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 18 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 15' to 88 30' 29 16 30' to 16 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 32 16 30' to 16 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 8 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 8 16 15' to 16 30'; 89 00' to 89 15' 4 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 19 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 45' to 89 00' 33 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 15 16 00' to 16 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 29 16 00' to 16 15'; 88 45' to 89 00' 29 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 15' to 88 30' 12 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 33 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 32 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 31 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 29 Tropical moist-transition to Subtropical 24 Subtropical wet 33 Subtropical wet 29 Subtropical moist 32 Subtropical moist 31 Subtropical moist 30 Subtropical moist 29 Subtropical moist 27 Subtropical Lower Montane moist 32 General Distribution Comments 34* Common northern semideciduous moist forest. Common southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. 30* RARE in broadleaf forest, COMMON in scrub 24* NE portion TMNR, base camp Pook's Hill 23* Guacamallo Bridge 22* Guacamallo 19* San Pedro Columbia 13* Richardson Creek & Bladen Br. upstream to Calera Caves; lower Quebrada de Oro & Bladen from Calera to Hellgate; Upper reaches of Quebrada de Oro 9* Sighted at or within 5 mile radius of Chaa Creek Cottages 8* Los Cuevis Camp and Puente Natural 5* Francelia Camp 4* Rare at Union Camp 3* Common in northern and southern hardwood forests. References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 Parker, T. A. III, B. K. Holst, L. H. Emmons, J. R. Meyer. 1993. A Biological Assessment of the Columbia River Forest Reserve, Toledo District, Belize. pp.71-78 5 Miller, B.W.; C.M. Miller. 1992. Preliminary Avian Survey of the Upper Macal River: Rubber Camp and Francelia Camp, pp.55-63. in Macal River Hydroelectric Development Environmental Impact Assessment Rubber Camp and Chalillo Schemes Pre-feasibility Study - Draft Environmental Appendix. Vol. II of III 6 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 7 Miller, C., B. Miller. 1994. Avian Studies in the Upper Mullins River Basin, Feb. and May. Unpublished Report. 8 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1992. Biodiversity Reconnaissance in Chiquibul National Park, 13-19 July. Unpublished report. 9 Carnegie Ornithological Group and Mass Audubon Ornithological Group, compilers. 1993. Chaa Creek Bird List. Unpublished list. 10 Miller, B. W., C. M. Miller. 1994, Birds of Caracol, 1988 - 1993. in prep. 11 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1987. Conservation of a Critical Marsh and Lowland habitat, Mussel Creek drainage system, Belize, C.A. Report to NYZS/Wildlife Conservation Society. 12 Miller, C., B. Miller. 1994. Avian Surveys: Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve 1-10 March. Unpublished Report to the Forest Department. 13 Brokaw, N. L. V., T. L. Lloyd-Evans. 1987. The Bladen Branch Wilderness. p.38-42. Unpublished report. 14 Anon. 1994. Monkey Bay Checklist of Birds. Unpublished list. 15 Meerman, J. 1993. Checklist of the Birds of the Shipstern Nature Reserve, Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 2(10). pp. 71-81. 16 Mallory, E. 1991. Survey of Birds and their Habitats, of the Joint Services Scientific Expedition to Upper Raspaculo, Maya Mountains, Belize. 17 Mallory, E. 1993. Birds of the Upper Raspaculo, Belize: JSSEUR II. Unpublished report. 18 McDuffie, P. 1993. Personal Bird List for Belize: September 1, 1989 - December 15, 1993. Unpublished list. 19 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U 20 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 21 O'Connell, S. 1987. in Horwich, R. H. and J. Lyon. The Community Baboon Sanctuary, A Guide Book. Orangu-tan Press, Gays Mills, WI. pp. 113. 22 Counsell, D.J.R., B. Etheridge. 1986. RAFOS Expedition to Belize. Unpublished report. 23 Jenkins, P. G. 1982. The Royal Air Force Ornithological Society Belize Expedition, 1981. 80.pp Unpublished report. 24 Miller, C.M., B.W. Miller. 1994. Preliminary Faunal Surveys at Tapir Mt. Nature Reserve, 27 Nov.-5 Dec., 1994. Unpublished report for BAS. 25 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller, S. N. G. Howell. In prep. An Annotated Checklist of the Birds of Belize. 26 Stiles, F. G., A. F. Skutch. 1989. A Guide to the Birds of Costa Rica. Ithaca, NY. Comstock Publishing Associates 27 James, D., J. Bider. 1993. Bird List: Community Baboon Sanctuary, 1989- 1993 (derived from banding & census data, field notes). Unpublished data 28 Howell, S. N. G., S. Webb. 1995. A Guide to the Birds of Mexico and Northern Central America. New York. Oxford University Press. 29 Robbins, Chandler. 1996. U.S.F.& Wildlife Service Wintering Bird Surveys for Belize. Unpublished data provided by C. Robbins. 30 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 31 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 32 ROM. 1997. Royal Ontario Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jan. 1, 1997. Provided by Brad Millen. 33 Panza, R. 1997. Carnegie Museum, Division of Birds, Holdings of Belize specimens through Jun. 1, 1997. 34 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p. 35 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program.
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