Overview
Mostly chestut brown body color, with a rofous colored breast.
Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Class
- Bird
- Family
- Odontophoridae
- Genus
- Odontophorus
- Species
- speciosus
Habitat
Subtropical or tropical moist montane forests.
Diet
Fruits, nuts, and seeds.
Behavior
Similar to the other wood quail in the Odontophorus family.
Hunting
More information is needed.
Conservation Status
Listed as Near Threatened Based on a model of future deforestation in the Amazon basin, and the species’s susceptibility to habitat fragmentation and hunting, it is suspected that its population will decline by 25-30% over the next three generations, and it has therefore been uplisted to Near Threatened. (IUCN) by IUCN.