New World Quails (Odontophoridae)
Marbled Wood-quail (Odontophorus gujanensis) - HBW 2, p. 428
French: Tocro de Guyane
German: Marmorwachtel
Spanish: Corcovado Común
Taxonomy: Tetrao gujanensis Gmelin, 1789, Cayenne.
Eight subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- castigatus Bangs, 1901 - SW Costa Rica and (?formerly) W Panama.
- marmoratus (Gould, 1844) - E Panama to N Colombia and NW Venezuela.
- gujanensis (Gmelin, 1789) - SE Venezuela, Guianas and Brazil (S to Mato Grosso) and extreme N Paraguay.
- castigatus Bangs, 1901 - SW Costa Rica and (?formerly) W Panama.
- marmoratus (Gould, 1844) - E Panama to N Colombia and NW Venezuela.
- gujanensis (Gmelin, 1789) - SE Venezuela, Guianas and Brazil (S to Mato Grosso) and extreme N Paraguay.
- medius Chapman, 1929 - S Venezuela and NW Brazil.
- buckleyi Chubb, 1919 - base of E Andes of Colombia, E Ecuador and N Peru.
- rufogularis Blake, 1959 - upper reaches of R Yavari, NE Peru.
- pachyrhynchus Tschudi, 1844 - E Peru and possibly also W Bolivia.
- simonsi Chubb, 1919 - E Bolivia.
- Near Threatened Enlarge map
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A side view of a bird on the forest floor, standing still. Locality Brownsberg National Park, Suriname (ssp gujanensis)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 21 July 2011 1 year ago 49 sec 3.3 -
A bird standing still and getting sleepy. Locality Brownsberg National Park, Suriname (ssp gujanensis)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 21 July 2011 1 year ago 27 sec 3.3 -
A bird standing still, and looking around, from the forest floor. Locality Brownsberg National Park, Suriname (ssp gujanensis)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 21 July 2011 1 year ago 22 sec 3 -
A bird standing still and looking around on the forest floor. Locality Brownsberg National Park, Suriname (ssp gujanensis)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 21 July 2011 1 year ago 18 sec 3 -
A bird snoozing on the forest floor. Locality Brownsberg National Park, Suriname (ssp gujanensis)
Pieter de Groot Boersma 21 July 2011 1 year ago 55 sec 3
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Bird actively scratching for food Locality Carara National Park, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica (ssp castigatus)
Chris and Megan Perkins 1 April 2010 3 years ago 4.4 -
A bird walking on the forest, ejecting the crest.
Locality Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Pará State, Brazil (ssp gujanensis)
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2011 1 year ago 3.7 -
2 birds feeding side by side Locality Carara National Park, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica
Chris and Megan Perkins 1 April 2010 3 years ago 3.3 -
A bird on the ground.
Locality Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Pará State, Brazil (ssp gujanensis)
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2011 1 year ago 3.3 -
A bird on the forest ground.
Locality Floresta Nacional de Carajás, Pará State, Brazil (ssp gujanensis)
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2011 1 year ago 3.2
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Song. Locality El Paujil Natural Reserve, Colombia
(ssp marmoratus)
Nick Athanas 1 December 2007 3 years ago 4
