male attracts 2 to 4 females to lay in its nest on the ground and in thick vegetation or between the raised roots of a tree. The male incubates and raises the young. Females will mate with more than one male. Conservation The IUCN has classified the slaty-breasted as vulnerable and it has an occurrence range of . It is hunted for food but its numbers seem to be consistent. Footnotes References External links Stamps (for Belize) Slaty-breasted Tinamou photo gallery VIREO Crypturellus Birds of Central America Birds of Belize Birds of Costa Rica Birds of Guatemala Birds of Honduras Birds of Mexico Birds of Nicaragua Birds of the Yucatán Peninsula Birds described in 1859 Taxa named by Philip Sclater Petén–Veracruz moist forests