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Rhynchotus rufescens
About 1 foot tall with red and black feathers.
Sub-tropical rainforest.
Really loud squawking.
It's crazy to think this little guy is in the same family as his much bigger brothers and sisters. Way cool!
No problem Peter. I like ratites (although our Emu are pretty scary up-close), and I knew I'd seen photos of this bird before. Tinamous are "parked" in a transitional stage between flighted and flightless, and therefore the most like all ratites' common ancestor. Cool, huh?
Most likely one of the Tinamous anyway. Here's a better image if a Red-winged: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rebske/2932...
Spotted on Sep 25, 2010
Submitted on Feb 5, 2011
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