Thinocorus

Thinocorus is a genus of seedsnipe, a South American family of small gregarious waders which have adapted to a vegetarian diet.

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

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