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Crested Bobwhite
Steve Garvie from Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Guans, curassows & quails

Crested Bobwhite

Colinus cristatus (Linnaeus, 1766)

LC Least Concern

Names

EnglishCrested Bobwhite
DutchKuifbobwhite
SpanishPerdiz
Chinese冠齿鹑
Scientific nameColinus cristatus (Linnaeus, 1766)

About this species

The crested bobwhite (Colinus cristatus) is a species of bird in the family Odontophoridae. It is found in northern South America, extending through Panama to just reach Costa Rica. It also occurs on Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry shrubland, subtropical or tropical seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, and heavily degraded former forest.

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Classification

KingdomAnimalia
PhylumChordata
ClassAves
OrderGalliformes
FamilyOdontophoridae
GenusColinus

In Suriname

256Records in Suriname
1iNaturalist observations
1884First record
2026Latest record

Where it has been recorded

  • Para168
  • Sipaliwini48
  • Brokopondo5
  • Paramaribo2

Districts with at least one record that has coordinates. Shaded districts have records.

Records by month

All years combined.

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