![]() Genera Geositta and Sclerurus being basal to all 2009) strongly support this position, with the Geneticĭata (Chesser 2004, Fjeldså et al. Within the Furnariidae, thus making that family paraphyletic. ![]() Yet as early asįeduccia (1973) it was proposed that the woodcreepers were embedded This standard approach was carried over into the Handbook of the Birds of the World Traditionally the Ovenbirds wereĬonsidered a separate family from the Woodcreepers. New species have added species, but what has changed must dramatically,Įnlarging the family by more than 20%, is what groups are included Is the typical hard-mud nest of horneros, but is apparently undescribedĪre even a larger family now than when I first posted a Furnariidae Tree emerging from flood water along the Napo River in Peru. This nest was in the crotch of a bare Cecropia Little is known about Lesser Hornero of the Amazon basin. One of those is Rufous Hornero, widespread in southern South America (left). They are often called "Ovenbirds" but "ovenbirds"Īre just the small subset of the family that builds hard mud nests Some extend north into Central America as farĪs southern Mexico. DR personal total: 106 species (35%), 26 photo'dĪre a huge family of New World passerines that range through every.OVENBIRDS Furnariinae, WOODCREEPERS Dendrocolaptinae & MINERS Sclerurinae
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