The Neomorphinae are a
subfamily of the
cuckoo
Cuckoos are birds in the Cuculidae family, the sole taxon in the order Cuculiformes . The cuckoo family includes the common or European cuckoo, roadrunners, koels, malkohas, couas, coucals and anis. The coucals and anis are sometimes separat ...
family, Cuculidae. Members of this subfamily are known as New World ground cuckoos, since most are largely
terrestrial
Terrestrial refers to things related to land or the planet Earth.
Terrestrial may also refer to:
* Terrestrial animal, an animal that lives on land opposed to living in water, or sometimes an animal that lives on or near the ground, as opposed to ...
and native to the
Americas.
Only ''Dromococcyx'' and ''Tapera'' are more
arboreal
Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally, but others are exclusively arboreal. The habitats pose num ...
, and these are also the only
brood parasitic cuckoos in the Americas, while the remaining all build their own nests.
Genera
References
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