how many Neomorphus (Neotropical Ground Cuckoos) have you seen? (1 Viewer)

[COLOMBIA Birding]

ey guys... we were discussing on facebook with Bill Porteus and Josh Beck and wondered if anyone has seen the 5 species of Neomorphus ground cuckoos here in the New World Tropics...

to start this thread, let's state there are 5 species (although some only recognize 4):

Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo (Neomorphus geoffroyi)
[Scaled Ground-Cuckoo (Neomorphus squamiger)]
Banded Ground-Cuckoo (Neomorphus radiolosus)
Rufous-winged Ground-Cuckoo (Neomorphus rufipennis)
Red-billed Ground-Cuckoo (Neomorphus pucheranii)

let's hear your responses and have fun!

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[COLOMBIA Birding]

Myself, I have only seen 2 species, but kinda the harder ones ;-) :

Rufous-winged Ground-Cuckoo (Neomorphus rufipennis) in Surama, Guyana
Red-billed Ground-Cuckoo (Neomorphus pucheranii) in the white-sand forests of Mitú, Colombia

 

[lewis20126]

2 seen, Banded and Rufous-winged, both well photographed.

Rufous-vented still a heard only. That will change!

cheers, alan

 

[Larry Sweetland]

er...let me think...ummm... ah yes, that's it...none

 

[temmie]

I would include Old World ground-cuckoos (Coral-billed, Sumatran and Bornean)

I have seen 2.
Coral-billed in Khao Yai and Rufous-vented at Amazonia lodge.
I think I know some guys who have seen all of the New World species including Scaled.

Red-billed is obviously the hardest one.
Scaled is still do-able. at this one place in Alta Floresta?
Banded is hard, again, but not impossible in the right places, it seems.
Rufous-winged is do-able in the right places.
Rufous-vented is a bit like Banded, no? (like in: has been twitchable in a certain time frame, but hard these days?)

 

[Nutcracker]

I wouldn't even know how to grind a cuckoo. So no ground cuckoos for me.

 

[Bokmakierie99]

I've seen the Rufous-vented, at pipeline road in Panama

 

[AmazonSupreme12]

One ground cuckoo for me only :-C

 

[Jeff Hopkins]

Heard two (one American, one Asian). Seen none.

 

[avechaser]

One, Rufous-vented. But several of those, including two young ones pretty much black in colour. Occasionally a yard bird in our bit of forest. Miserable failure on Rufous-winged - heard but not seen at Surama. Too lazy/poor to go and try for the others!

 

[COLOMBIA Birding]

Rich C. Hoyer (at Cristalino Lodge) says: "I now belong to a higher class of mortals, for I have seen the Scaled Ground-Cuckoo. Or something like that"

https://www.facebook.com/birdernaturalist/posts/10154058017418277

 

[COLOMBIA Birding]

Neomorphus numbers been updated...
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03 people with 4 species
04 people with 3 species
26 people with 2 species
47 people with 1 species
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06 people have seen Scaled
08 people have seen Red-billed
26 people have seen Rufous-winged
26 people have seen Banded
60 people have seen Rufous-vented
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[lgonz1008]

One for me, Rufous-winged Ground-Cuckoo in Guyana, bad outline sighting (compared to everyone else in the group that got scope views), but the bill snapping as it roamed towards us and then disappeared is unforgettable.

 

[Nightjar61]

One for me: Rufous-vented Ground Cuckoo in Panama. Three individuals working an ant swarm within about ten yards. They were completely oblivious to the members of my group and we actually left before they disappeared. One of the greatest and most exciting moments of my birding life.

Dave