Tinamus major birds (Great tinamou), Barro Colorado Island, Panama, 1960

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Contained In: Martin H. Moynihan Papers, 1952-1996

Series: SIA Acc. 01-096

Series: Smithsonian Field Book Project : an initiative to improve access to field book content that documents natural history

By

Moynihan, M.

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

1960

Notes

The notes document M. Moynihan's observations of Tinamus major birds (Great tinamou), February - August, 1960. Pages are numbered. Entries are headed with date, location, and type. Entries describe extended observations of behavior, appearance, and bird calls of wild and captive birds, their young, with referenced to time of day and time of hatching, comparisons to birds raised in captivity, behavior during feeding. Often birds are described in pairs. Includes notes that are separated from the general entries, notations indicated by pattern, and illustrations of birds that augment the text. Includes illustrations of birds augmenting text and notations are indicated by pattern. Locations include Barro Colorado Island, Panama.

Subjects

Animal behavior , Barro Colorado , Ethology , Field notes , Ornithology , Panama

BHL Collections

Smithsonian Field Books collection

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.121741