Rhynchotus rufescens Red-winged tinamou Rhynchotus maculicollis Huayco tinamou Rhynchotus is a genus of birds in the tinamou family.

This genus comprises two members of this South American family.

Tinamous have evolved from ratites and are the only extant ratites that fly, and are the closest to the ancestral flying ratites.

[2] The species are: