double-syllabled and sounds like "sweee weee." When under stress, it releases a lowering series of whistles that sounds like "swee wee wee wee" along with fast-paced wing sounds. Behavior The females lay 10-12 glossy eggs in a scrape. The male incubates the eggs and raises the chicks. The eggs are covered with feathers when left unattended. Incubation is around 21 days. The chicks are buff with dark stripes, and run soon after hatching and fly when half-grown. Later in life blue or gray spots may appear. Conservation The IUCN classifies the Chilean tinamou as Least Concern, with an occurrence range of . Footnotes References Hogan, Michael C.(2008) Chilean Wine Palm: Jubaea chilensis, GlobalTwitcher.com, ed. Nicklas Stromberg Jaramillo, Alvaro. Birds of Chile. Princeton: Princeton University Press (2003). External links Chilean Tinamou videos, photos & sounds on the Internet Bird Collection Chilean tinamou Birds of Chile Chilean tinamou Chilean tinamou Taxa named by Heinrich von Kittlitz