Tinamous

Tinamous () are members of the order Tinamiformes (), and family Tinamidae (), divided into two distinct subfamilies, containing 46 species found in Mexico, Central America, and South America. The word "tinamou" comes from the Galibi term for these birds, tinamu. Tinamous are the only living group of palaeognaths able to fly, and were traditionally regarded as the sister group of the flightless ratites, but recent work places them well within the ratite radiation as most closely related to the extinct moa of New Zealand, implying flightlessness emerged among ratites multiple times. Tinamous fi

Crypturellus is a genus of tinamous containing mostly forest species. However, there are the odd few that are grassland or steppe tinamous. The genus contains 21 species.

species of bird

Nothurinae or aridland tinamous is one of two subfamilies of the Tinamidae family, the other being Tinaminae. It contains eighteen species in six genera. The six genera are: Rhynchotus (2 species) Nothoprocta (6 species) Nothura (5 species) Taoniscus (monotypic) – dwarf tinamou Eudromia (2 species) Tinamotis (2 species)

Tinaminae, the forest tinamous, is one of two subfamilies of the family Tinamidae, the other being Nothurinae.