Thinocorus

Thinocorus
Thinocorus orbignyianus and Thinocorus rumicivorus from The birds of South America
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Charadriiformes
Family:	Thinocoridae
Genus:	Thinocorus Eschscholtz, 1829
Type species
Thinocorus rumicivorus Eschscholtz, 1829
Species
Thinocorus orbignyianus Thinocorus rumicivorus

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.

Species

Genus Thinocorus – Eschscholtz, 1829 – two species

Common name	Scientific name and subspecies	Range	Size and ecology	IUCN status and estimated population
Grey-breasted seedsnipe	Thinocorus orbignyianus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, I & Lesson, 1831 Two subspecies T. o. orbigyianus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire & Lesson, 1831) T. o. ingae (Tschudi, 1843)	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC
Least seedsnipe	Thinocorus rumicivorus Eschscholtz, 1829 Three subspecies T. r. cuneicauda, (Peale, 1848) T. r. bolivianus, (Lowe, 1921) T. r. rumicivorus, (Eschscholtz, 1829)	Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Peru.	Size: Habitat: Diet:	LC

References

• Shorebirds by Hayman, Marchant and Prater ISBN 0-395-60237-8