Thinocorus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Aves
- Order
- Charadriiformes
- Family
- Thinocoridae
- Genus
- Thinocorus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Thinocorus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Thinocorus
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 or 3 eggs are laid in a shallow scrape on the ground.
Thinocorus contains the smaller two of the four seedsnipe species.
...Thinocorus in languages:
- Bokmål
- Smårypesniper
- English
- Small Seedsnipes
- English
- Lesser Seedsnipes
- English
- Lark Seedsnipes
- Finnish
- pikkuylänköjuoksijat
- French
- Thinocores
- German
- Kleine Höhenläufer
- Russian
- Зобатые бегунки
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