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Tacarcuna Wood Quail
Odontophorus dialeucos Wetmore, 1963
Odontophoridae — New World Quail
Tacarcuna Wood Quail, Odontophorus dialeucos, is a bird of the New World quail family that breeds in eastern Panama and north-west Colombia. It was described by Wetmore in 1963. It is found along the Tacarcuna Ridge in Darién Province and Chocó Department, where it lives on the forest floor in subtropical forest between 1,050 and 1,450 m. It is a monotypic species. The male has a black crown and throat, white facial markings, cinnamon on the sides and back of the neck, olive-brown upperparts with black vermiculation, and chestnut underparts speckled with white.
- Order
- Galliformes
- Family
- Odontophoridae — New World Quail
- Breeding range
- Middle America, South America: e Panama and nw Colombia
