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title: "Elegant Crested-Tinamou"
description: "Eudromia elegans — Uccelli. The elegant crested tinamou or martineta tinamou (Eudromia elegans) is a medium-sized tinamou that can be found in southern Chile and Argentina in Shrubland."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/elegant-crested-tinamou
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Elegant Crested-Tinamou

> Eudromia elegans — Uccelli. The elegant crested tinamou or martineta tinamou (Eudromia elegans) is a medium-sized tinamou that can be found in southern Chile and Argentina in Shrubland.

- Scientific name: *Eudromia elegans*
- Category: `birds` (Uccelli)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 841
- Wikidata: [Q843185](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q843185)
- iNaturalist taxon: [20637](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/20637)

## Names

- en: Elegant Crested-Tinamou
- de: Perlsteißhuhn
- es: Perdiz copetona
- fr: Tinamou élégant
- nl: Kuiftinamoe
- pt: Martineta-elegante
- pl: Kusacz pampasowy

## Countries with the most observations

AR (745), CL (22)

## Summary

The elegant crested tinamou or martineta tinamou (Eudromia elegans) is a medium-sized tinamou that can be found in southern Chile and Argentina in Shrubland. The bird has an omnivorous diet. This species is terrestrial due to their poor flying ability.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elegant_crested_tinamou

## Photo

![Elegant Crested-Tinamou](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/elegant-crested-tinamou/medium.jpg)

Photo: Hugo Hulsberg · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146824060

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/elegant-crested-tinamou?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).