A large tinamou ranging from the eastern Andes to Brazil’s savanna woodland. It feeds mainly on fruit on the forest floor.
It is about 42–49 cm long and mostly gray, with freckled sides of the head and reddish-brown undertail coverts.
It is recorded in Andean rainforest, dense secondary forest, Venezuelan cloud forest, and Brazilian cerrado. On the forest floor it eats mainly fruit, as well as seeds and invertebrates.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.