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Ornate tinamou

Nothoprocta ornata (G. R. Gray, 1867)

LCLeast Concernbirds

The ornate tinamou (Nothoprocta ornata) is a species in the family Tinamidae, order Tinamiformes. Recorded adults weigh 569 g to 674 g. Its IUCN Red List status is Least Concern.

Ornate tinamou (Nothoprocta ornata)
Photo: Ron Knight from Seaford, East Sussex, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Quick facts about the ornate tinamou

Weight
569 g – 674 gsrc for Weight
Length
Not recorded
Lifespan
Not recorded
Diet
Omnivoresrc for Diet
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
grasslandsrc for Habitat
Egg incubation
24 dayssrc for Egg incubation
Young per litter or clutch
6 – 7.2src for Young per litter or clutch
Age at maturity
8.74 monthssrc for Age at maturity
Litters or clutches a year
2src for Litters or clutches a year
Lifestyle
Terrestrialsrc for Lifestyle
Migration
Sedentarysrc for Migration
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN)src for Conservation status
Countries on record
Not recorded

Photos of the ornate tinamou

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Ornate tinamou (Nothoprocta ornata)
Joseph Smit · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Where does the ornate tinamou live?

Not recorded

What is the ornate tinamou?

Quoted from WikipediaCC BY-SA 4.0

The ornate tinamou (Nothoprocta ornata) is a type of tinamou commonly found in the high altitude grassland and dry shrubland in subtropical and tropical regions of west central South America.

From the Wikipedia article “Ornate tinamou” (en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ornate_tinamou&oldid=1332126779), by Wikipedia contributors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0). This block is kept separate from our own text.

Is the ornate tinamou endangered?

The ornate tinamou is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List: it is not currently at risk of extinction.

  1. LCLeast Concern
  2. NTNear Threatened
  3. VUVulnerable
  4. ENEndangered
  5. CRCritically Endangered
  6. EWExtinct in the Wild
  7. EXExtinct

Category via Wikidata (CC0). Find the full assessment on the IUCN Red List. See all Least Concern species. What the categories mean.

How is the ornate tinamou classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumChordata
  3. classAves
  4. orderTinamiformes
  5. familyTinamidae
  6. genusNothoprocta
  7. SpeciesNothoprocta ornata (G. R. Gray, 1867)

Synonyms Nothoprocta ornata jimenezi, Nothoprocta ornata labradori, Rhynchotus ornatus

Other names and names in other languages (36)
  • تنام مزينArabic
  • tinamú ornatCatalan
  • tinama zdobenáCzech
  • tinama ozdobnáCzech
  • tinamŵ addurnolWelsh
  • BjergtinamuDanish
  • PisaccatinamuGerman
  • Pisacca-SteißhuhnGerman
  • PisaccasteißhuhnGerman
  • ornamita tinamoEsperanto
  • Tinamú ornadoSpanish
  • Inambú serranoSpanish
  • Perdiz CordilleranaSpanish
  • Tinamú pisaccaSpanish
  • põld-mägitinamuEstonian
  • pyytinamiFinnish
  • Tinamou ornéFrench
  • šarenokrili tinamuCroatian
  • Tinamo ornatoItalian
  • ゴマダラシギダチョウJapanese
  • puošnusis stepinis tinamasLithuanian
  • PisaccatinamoeDutch
  • fjelltinamuNorwegian
  • kusacz ozdobnyPolish
  • inambu-adornadoPortuguese
  • inhambu-adornadoPortuguese
  • tinamu-adornadoPortuguese
  • Украшенный тинамуRussian
  • Украшенный степной тинамуRussian
  • inambu ozdobnýSlovak
  • Ukrašeni tinamuSerbian
  • tofstinamoSwedish
  • Çil TinamusuTurkish
  • інамбу рудогрудийUkrainian
  • 丽色斑䳍Chinese
  • 麗色鴇尾(共鳥)Chinese

Catalogue of LifeWikipediaiNaturalistWikidataIUCN Red List

Relatives of the ornate tinamou

Other species in the same genus Nothoprocta.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is the ornate tinamou?

An adult ornate tinamou weighs 569 g – 674 g, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Is the ornate tinamou endangered?

The ornate tinamou is listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List, meaning it is not currently at risk of extinction.

What kind of animal is the ornate tinamou?

The ornate tinamou (Nothoprocta ornata) belongs to the family Tinamidae in the order Tinamiformes.

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BibTeX
@misc{ornate_tinamou_2026,
  title = {Ornate tinamou (Nothoprocta ornata)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/ornate-tinamou},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-11}
}