Superorder: Palaeognathae
Order: Tinamiformes
Family: Tinamidae

Ecoa
August 27, 2014

While this picture leaves much to be desired, it is my first easily recognizable picture of a tinamou, and thus of order clearly Tinamiformes.

Cambridge

Tinamou egg from Uruguary - only egg collected by Darwin on his Beagle voyage
Rediscovered in 2009, year of the Darwin bicentennial

"One egg, received through Frank Darwin, having been sent to me by his father who said he got it at Maldonado (Uruguay) and that it belonged to the Common Tinamou of those parts."

Alfred Newton

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