Birds of the World

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Genus: Neomorphus (5 species)


Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus geoffroyi salvini) Vulnerable Range: MA, SA: Nicaragua to Colombia and s Brazil Panama
Photograph by Joel N. Rosenthal © All Rights Reserved.

A rarely seen songbird-sized cuckoo that follows ant swarms.


Red-billed Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus pucheranii) Range: SA: w Amazonia Image by Fran?ois-Louis Laporte, comte de Castelnau (1802?1880)
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Banded Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus radiolosus) Endangered Range: SA: sw Colombia and nw Ecuador Un Poco del Choco Reserve, Ecuador
Photograph by Jenn Sinasac © All Rights Reserved.


Banded Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus radiolosus) Endangered Range: SA: sw Colombia and nw Ecuador Ecuador
Photograph by George Cruz (San Jorge Eco-Lodges) © All Rights Reserved.

Very rare, even at ant swarms.


Rufous-winged Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus rufipennis) Range: SA: s Venezuela, Guyana and n Brazil Image credit: Joseph Wolf
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Scaled Ground Cuckoo (Neomorphus squamiger) Range: SA: Brazil and sc Amazonia (lower Rio Tapajós)

© Tom Friedel - All Rights Reserved, except for images and data otherwise noted.       Colombia       Panama       Ecuador       Costa Rica       Mexico
Experimental sites:       Peru       Venezuela       The World       Brazil       Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba