Thinocorus
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| A study skin of a Least Seedsnipe from the collections of the Royal Ontario Museum, seen from above and below | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Class: | Aves |
| Order: | Charadriiformes |
| Family: | Thinocoridae |
| Genus: | Thinocorus Eschscholtz, 1829 |
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Thinocorus is a genus of seedsnipe, a South American family of small gregarious waders which have adapted to a vegetarian diet.
These birds look superficially like partridges in structure and bill shape. They have short legs and long wings. Their 2-3 eggs are laid in a shallow scrape on the ground.
Thinocorus contains the smaller two of the four seedsnipe species.
[edit] Species
- Grey-breasted Seedsnipe Thinocorus orbignyanus
- Least Seedsnipe Thinocorus rumicivorus
[edit] References
- Shorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater ISBN 0-395-60237-8
