A Checklist of the Birds of
BRAZIL


Bold-faced species are rare, unusual or local species.
  Sep
  2004
Greater Rhea x
Solitary Tinamou  
Brown Tinamou h
Tataupa Tinamou h
Undulated Tinamou h
Small-billed Tinamou x
Red-winged Tinamou h
Spotted Nothura  
Dwarf Tinamou  
Least Grebe  
Pied-billed Grebe  
Neotropic Cormorant x
Magnificent Frigatebird x
Anhinga x
Cocoi (White-necked) Heron x
Great Egret x
Snowy Egret x
Striated Heron x
Agami Heron  
Cattle Egret x
Whistling Heron x
Capped Heron x
Black-crowned Night-Heron x
Boat-billed Heron x
Rufescent Tiger-Heron x
Least Bittern  
Little Blue Heron x
Wood Stork x
Maguari Stork x
Jabiru x
Plumbeous Ibis x
Buff-necked Ibis x
Green Ibis x
Whispering (Bare-faced) Ibis x
White-faced Ibis x
Roseate Spoonbill x
Southern Screamer x
Fulvous Whistling-Duck  
White-faced Whistling-Duck  
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck  
Ringed Teal  
Brazilian Teal x
Comb Duck  
Muscovy Duck x
King Vulture  
Black Vulture x
Turkey Vulture x
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture x
White-tailed Kite  
Pearl Kite  
Swallow-tailed Kite x
Gray-headed Kite  
Hook-billed Kite  
Rufous-thighed Kite x
Plumbeous Kite x
Mississippi Kite  
Snail Kite x
Bicolored Kite  
Tiny Hawk  
Rufous-thighed Hawk x
Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle  
White-tailed Hawk  
Zone-tailed Hawk  
Roadside Hawk x
Short-tailed Hawk x
Harris's Hawk  
Mantled Hawk  
Black-collared Hawk x
Savanna Hawk x
Great Black-Hawk x
Crowned Eagle  
Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle x
Ornate Hawk-Eagle x
Black Hawk-Eagle  
Long-winged Harrier  
Crane Hawk x
Osprey  
Laughing Falcon h
Collared Forest-Falcon x
Barred Forest-Falcon h
Yellow-headed Caracara x
Southern Caracara x
Peregrine Falcon  
Orange-breasted Falcon  
Bat Falcon  
Aplomado Falcon  
American Kestrel x
Chaco Chachalaca x
Rusty-margined Guan  
Dusky-legged Guan x
Chestnut-bellied Guan x
Red-throated Piping-Guan x
Blue-throated Piping-Guan x
Black-fronted Piping-Guan x
Bare-faced Curassow x
Spot-winged Wood-Quail x
Limpkin x
Blackish Rail  
Gray-necked Wood-Rail x
Slaty-breasted Wood-Rail x
Ash-throated Crake h
Gray-breasted Crake  
Rufous-sided Crake  
Paint-billed Crake  
Common Moorhen  
Purple Gallinule  
Azure Gallinule  
Sungrebe  
Sunbittern x
Red-legged Seriema x
Wattled Jacana x
White-backed Stilt x
Southern Lapwing x
Solitary Sandpiper x
Greater Yellowlegs x
Lesser Yellowlegs  
Spotted Sandpiper  
Baird's Sandpiper  
Upland Sandpiper x
White-rumped Sandpiper  
Pectoral Sandpiper  
Stilt Sandpiper  
Southern American Snipe  
Kelp Gull x
Large-billed Tern x
Yellow-billed Tern  
Black Skimmer  
Scaled Pigeon x
Picazuro Pigeon x
Pale-vented Pigeon x
Plumbeous Pigeon x
Eared Dove  
Scaled Dove x
Plain-breasted Ground-Dove x
Ruddy Ground-Dove x
Picui Ground-Dove x
Blue-Ground-Dove x
Purple-winged Ground-Dove  
Long-tailed Ground-Dove x
White-tipped Dove x
Gray-fronted Dove h
Ruddy Quail-Dove  
Violaceous Quail-Dove  
Hyacinth Macaw x
Red-and-green Macaw x
Blue-winged Macaw x
Yellow (Golden)-collared Macaw x
Blue-crowned Parakeet  
White-eyed Parakeet x
Peach-fronted Parakeet x
Black-hooded (Nanday) Parakeet x
Maroon (Reddish)-bellied Parakeet x
Monk Parakeet x
Blue-winged Parrotlet  
Plain Parakeet  
Yellow-chevroned Parakeet x
Golden-tailed Parrotlet  
Pileated (Red-capped) Parrot x
Blue-headed Parrot x
Scaly-headed Parrot x
Blue (Turquoise)-fronted Parrot x
Mealy Parrot  
Ash-colored Cuckoo  
Pearly-breasted Cuckoo  
Dark-billed Cuckoo x
Squirrel Cuckoo x
Little Cuckoo x
Greater Ani  
Smooth-billed Ani x
Guira Cuckoo x
Striped Cuckoo x
Pheasant Cuckoo h
Pavonine Cukoo  
Barn Owl  
Tropical Screech-Owl  
Variable (Black-cap.) Screech-Owl  
Great Horned Owl x
Tawny-browed Owl x
Brazilian Pygmy-Owl  
Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl x
Burrowing Owl x
Mottled Owl  
Rusty-barred Owl  
Striped Owl  
Great Potoo x
Common Potoo x
Short-tailed (Chest-bell) Nighthawk  
Least Nighthawk  
Band-tailed Nighthawk x
Nacunda Nightawk x
Pauraque x
Ocellated Poorwill  
Band-winged Nightjar  
Spot-tailed Nightjar x
Little Nightjar  
Scissor-tailed Nightjar  
Long-trained Nightjar  
White-collared Swift x
Biscutate Swift  
Great Dusky Swift x
Sooty Swift  
Gray-rumped Swift  
Sick's (Ashy-tailed) Swift x
Short-tailed Swift  
Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift  
Fork-tailed Palm-Swift  
Rufous-breasted Hermit  
Scale-throated Hermit x
Dusky-throated Hermit  
Planalto Hermit  
Buff-bellied Hermit  
Cinnamon-throated Hermit x
Reddish Hermit  
Swallow-tailed Hummingbird x
White-necked Jacobin  
Black Jacobin x
White-vented Violet-ear x
Black-throated Mango  
Ruby-Topaz Hummingbird  
Black-breasted Plovercrest x
Dot-eared Coquette x
Frilled Coquette x
Racket-tailed Coquette  
Glittering-bellied Emerald x
Fork-tailed Woodnymph  
Violet-capped Woodnymph x
Rufous-throated Sapphire  
White-chinned Sapphire  
Gilded Sapphire x
White-throated Hummingbird x
White-tailed Goldenthroat x
Versicolored Emerald x
Glittering-throated Emerald x
Sapphire-spangled Emerald  
Sombre Hummingbird  
Brazilian Ruby x
Horned Sungem  
Stripe-breasted Starthroat  
Blue-tufted Starthroat  
Amethyst Woodstar  
White-tailed Trogon  
Collared Trogon  
Black-throated Trogon x
Surucua Trogon x
Blue-crowned Trogon x
Ringed Kingfisher x
Amazon Kingfisher x
Green Kingfisher x
Green-and-rufous Kingfisher x
American Pygmy Kingfisher x
Rufous-capped Motmot x
Blue-crowned Motmot x
Brown Jacamar  
Rufous-tailed Jacamar x
White-eared Puffbird  
Spot-backed Puffbird  
Crescent-chested Puffbird  
Black-fronted Nunbird x
Swallow-wing  
Chestnut-eared Aracari x
Lettered Aracari x
Spot-billed Toucanet x
Saffron Toucanet x
Red-breasted Toucan x
Yellow-ridged Toucan x
Toco Toucan x
White-wedged Piculet x
White-barred Piculet x
Ochre-collared Piculet x
Campo Flicker x
Green-barred Woodpecker x
Yellow-throated Woodpecker  
Golden-green Woodpecker x
White(Yellow)-browed Woodpecker x
Blond-crested Woodpecker  
Pale-crested Woodpecker x
Cream-colored Woodpecker  
Lineated Woodpecker x
Helmeted Woodpecker  
Yellow-tufted Woodpecker x
Yellow-fronted Woodpecker x
White Woodpecker  
White-fronted Woodpecker  
Little Woodpecker x
White-spotted Woodpecker x
Yellow-eared Woodpecker  
Checkered Woodpecker  
Crimson-crested Woodpecker x
Robust Woodpecker x
Thrush-like(Plain-wing)Woodcreeper h
Olivaceous Woodcreeper x
White-throated Woodcreeper x
Great Rufous Woodcreeper h
Planalto Woodcreeper x
Straight-billed Woodcreeper x
Buff-throated Woodcreeper x
Narrow-billed Woodcreeper x
Scaled Woodcreeper x
Lesser Woodcreeper x
Red-billed Scythebill  
Black-billed Scythebill h
Rufous Hornero x
Pale-legged Hornero x
Wing-banded Hornero  
Araucaria Tit-Spinetail h
Chotoy Spinetail x
Itatiaia Thistletail (Spinetail) x
Rufous-capped Spinetail x
Sooty-fronted Spinetail  
Cinereous-breasted Spinetail x
Pale-breasted Spinetail x
White-lored Spinetail x
Gray-bellied Spinetail x
Chicli Spinetail x
Ochre-cheeked Spinetail  
Rusty-backed Spinetail x
Pallid Spinetail x
Yellow-chinned Spinetail x
Rufous-fronted(Common)Thornbird x
Red-eyed Thornbird  
Greater Thornbird x
Firewood-gatherer  
Point-tailed Palmcreeper  
Rufous (Gray-crested) Cacholote x
Pale-browed Treehunter x
White-collared Foliage-Gleaner x
Buff-browed Foliage-Gleaner x
Ochre-breasted Foliage-Gleaner x
White-browed Foliage-Gleaner x
Black-capped Foliage-Gleaner x
Buff-fronted Foliage-Gleaner x
White-eyed Foliage-Gleaner x
Chestnut-capped Foliage-Gleaner  
Sharp-billed Treehunter x
Streaked Xenops x
Plain Xenops x
Rufous-breasted Leaftosser  
Tawny-throated Leaftosser  
Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper h
Spot-backed Antshrike  
Giant Antshrike x
Large-tailed Antshrike  
Tufted Antshrike  
Great Antshrike x
White-bearded Antshrike x
Barred Antshrike x
Planalto Slaty-Antshrike x
Sooretama Slaty-Antshrike  
Variable Antshrike x
Rufous-winged Antshrike x
Rufous-capped Antshrike  
Plain Antvireo x
Spot-breasted Antvireo x
Rufous-backed Antvireo x
White-flanked Antwren  
Plain-throated Antwren  
Star-throated Antwren x
Stripe-backed Antwren  
Rufous-winged Antwren x
Large-billed Antwren x
Rusty-backed Antwren x
Ferruginous Antbird x
Bertoni's Antbird x
Rufous-tailed Antbird x
Ochre-rumped Antbird x
Dusky-tailed Antbird  
Scaled Antbird  
Streak-capped Antwren x
Mato Grosso Antbird x
Rio de Janeiro Antbird  
White-backed Fire-eye x
White-shouldered Fire-eye x
Band-tailed Antbird x
Squamate Antbird  
White-bibbed Antbird  
Such's (Cryptic) Antthrush h
Brazilian (Rufous-tailed) Antthrush x
Rufous-capped Antthrush  
Variegated Antpitta h
Speckle-breasted Antpitta h
Black-cheeked Gnateater  
Rufous Gnateater x
Collared Crescent-chest x
Spotted Bamboowren  
Slaty Bristlefront x
Mouse-colored Tapaculo x
White-breasted Tapaculo  
Elegant Mourner  
Swallow-tailed Cotinga  
Black-and-gold Cotinga x
Red-ruffed Fruitcrow  
Bare-throated Bellbird  
Sharpbill  
White-naped Xenopsaris x
Green-backed Becard x
Chestnut-crowned Becard x
White-winged Becard x
Black-capped Becard  
Crested Becard x
Black-tailed Tityra x
Masked Tityra x
Black-crowned Tityra x
Band-tailed Manakin h
Helmeted Manakin x
Swallow-tailed (Blue) Manakin x
White-bearded Manakin  
Fiery-capped Manakin  
Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin x
Black-capped Piprites x
Wing-barred Piprites  
Greenish Schiffornis x
Gray Monjita x
White-rumped Monjita x
White-Monjita  
Long-tailed Tyrant x
Streamer-tailed Tyrant x
Crested Black-Tyrant x
Velvety Black-Tyrant x
Blue-billed Black-Tyrant x
Hudson's Black-Tyrant  
Spectacled Tyrant  
Shear-tailed Gray Tyrant  
Black-backed Water-Tyrant x
Masked Water-Tyrant x
White-headed Marsh-Tyrant x
Vermilion Flyctcher x
Yellow-browed Tyrant  
Cattle Tyrant x
Sirystes x
Fork-tailed Flycatcher x
Tropical Kingbird x
White-throated Kingbird  
Variegated Flycatcher  
Crowned Slaty-Flycatcher  
Sulphury Flycatcher  
Piratic Flycatcher x
Three-striped Flycatcher x
Boat-billed Flycatcher x
Streaked Flycatcher x
Rusty-margined Flycatcher x
Social Flycatcher  
Great Kiskadee x
Lesser Kiskadee x
Gray-hooded Attila x
Cinnamon Attila  
White-eyed Attila x
Rufous-tailed Attila  
Rufous Casiornis x
Grayish Mourner  
Short-crested Flycatcher x
Brown-crested Flycatcher x
Swainson's Flycatcher x
Dusky-capped Flycatcher x
Yellow(Sulphur)-rumped Flycatcher  
Black-tailed Flycatcher x
Tropical Pewee x
Euler's Flycatcher  
Fuscous Flycatcher x
Bran-colored Flycatcher x
Swallow (Cliff) Flycatcher x
White-throated Spadebill x
Russet-winged Spadebill  
Atlantic Royal Flycatcher  
Yellow-olive Flycatcher x
Gray-crowned Flycatcher  
Yellow-margined Flycatcher  
Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher x
Common Tody-Flycatcher x
Rusty-fronted Tody-Flycatcher x
Yellow-lored Tody-Flycatcher x
Stripe-necked Tody-Tyrant x
Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant x
Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant  
Hangnest Tody-Tyrant  
Fork-tailed Tody-Tyrant  
Drab-breasted Bamboo-Tyrant x
Brown-breasted Bamboo-Tyrant x
Large-headed Flatbill x
Yellow Tyrannulet  
Southern Bristle-Tyrant  
Bay-ringed Tyrannulet  
Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet x
Oustalet's Tyrannulet  
Serra do Mar Tyrannulet x
Sao Paulo Tyrannulet  
Rufous-sided Pygmy-Tyrant x
Tawny-crowned Pygmy-Tyrant x
Bearded Tachuri x
White-crested Tyrannulet x
Sooty Tyrannulet  
Plain Tyrannulet  
Yellow-bellied Elaenia h
White-crested Elaenia x
Small-billed Elaenia  
Olivaceous Elaenia x
Plain-crested Elaenia x
Lesser Elaenia  
Highland Elaenia  
Forest Elaenia x
Gray Elaenia  
Greenish Elaenia x
Campo Suiriri  
Chapada Flycatcher x
Southern Scrub-Flycatcher  
Mouse-colored Tyrannulet  
Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet x
Planalto Tyrannulet x
Greenish Tyrannulet x
Rough-legged Tyrannulet  
Gray-capped Tyrannulet x
Sepia-capped Tyrannulet x
Ochre-bellied Flycatcher  
Gray-hooded Flycatcher x
Southern Antpipit x
Eared Pygmy-Tyrant x
White-winged Swallow x
White-rumped Swallow  
Brown-chested Martin x
Purple Martin  
Gray-breasted Martin x
Blue-and-white Swallow x
White-thighed Swallow  
Tawny-headed Swallow  
Southern Rough-winged Swallow x
Bank Swallow  
Barn Swallow  
Cliff Swallow  
Curl-crested Jay x
Plush-crested Jay x
Purplish Jay x
Thrush-like Wren x
Moustached Wren x
Buff-breasted Wren  
Fawn-breasted Wren x
Long-billed Wren  
(Southern) House Wren x
Black-capped Donacobius x
Chalk-browed Mockingbird x
Yellow-legged Thrush x
Eastern Slaty-Thrush  
Rufous-bellied Thrush x
Pale-breasted Thrush x
Creamy-bellied Thrush x
Lawrence's Thrush  
White-necked Thrush x
Long-billed Gnatwren  
Masked Gnatcatcher x
Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher  
Yellowish Pipit x
Rufous-browed Peppershrike x
Red-eyed Vireo x
Rufous-crowned Greenlet x
Lemon-chested Greenlet  
Ashy-headed Greenlet x
Buff-cheeked Greenlet  
Shiny Cowbird x
Screaming Cowbird  
Bay-winged Cowbird x
Giant Cowbird x
Crested Oropendola x
Yellow-rumped Cacique x
Red-rumped Cacique x
Golden-winged Cacique x
Solitary Cacique x
Chopi Blackbird x
Chestnut-capped Blackbird x
Unicolored Blackbird x
Epaulet Oriole x
Campo Oriole (Oran-back Troupial) x
Scarlet-headed Blackbird x
Yellow-rumped Marshbird  
White-browed Blackbird x
Tropical Parula x
Masked Yellowthroat x
Flavescent Warbler x
Golden-crowned Warbler x
White-bellied Warbler x
White-rimmed Warbler x
Neotropical River Warbler  
Bananaquit x
Chestnut-vented Conebill x
Red-legged Honeycreeper  
Green Honeycreeper  
Black-legged Dacnis  
Blue Dacnis x
Swallow Tanager x
Blue-naped Chlorophonia x
Golden-rumped Euphonia  
Orange-bellied Euphonia  
Purple-throated Euphonia x
Thick-billed Euphonia x
Violaceous Euphonia x
White-vented Euphonia  
Chestnut-bellied Euphonia x
Green-chinned Euphonia  
Fawn-breasted Tanager x
Green-headed Tanager x
Burnished-buff Tanager x
Black-backed Tanager  
Red-necked Tanager  
Gilt-edged Tanager  
Brassy-breasted Tanager x
Blue-necked Tanager  
Diademed Tanager x
Azure-shouldered Tanager  
Golden-chevroned Tanager x
Sayaca Tanager x
Palm Tanager x
Brazilian Tanager  
Silver-beaked Tanager x
Lowland Hepatic-Tanager  
Olive-green Tanager x
Red-crowned Ant-Tanager x
White-lined Tanager x
Ruby-crowned Tanager x
Flame-crested Tanager  
Gray-headed Tanager x
Black-goggled Tanager x
White-rumped Tanager x
Chestnut-headed Tanager  
Hooded Tanager x
Guira Tanager x
Yellow-backed Tanager  
Rufous-headed Tanager x
Orange-headed Tanager  
Bown Tanager  
White-banded Tanager x
Magpie Tanager x
Cinnamon Tanager x
Black-faced Tanager x
Buff-throated Saltator x
Grayish Saltator x
Green-winged Saltator x
Thick-billed Saltator  
Golden-billed Saltator  
Black-thoated Saltator x
Red-crested Cardinal x
Yellow-billed Cardinal x
Yellow-green Grosbeak  
Black-throated Grosbeak  
Ultramarine Grosbeak  
Yellow-billed Blue Finch  
Blue-black Grassquit x
Lesser Seed-Finch x
Sooty Grassquit  
Temminck's Seedeater  
Plumbeous Seedeater x
Rusty-collared Seedeater x
Lined Seedeater  
Yellow-bellied Seedeater  
Double-collared Seedeater x
White-bellied Seedeater x
Black-and-tawny Seedeater  
Capped Seedeater  
Tawny-bellied Seedeater  
Marsh Seedeater  
Orange-fronted Yellow-Finch  
Saffron Finch x
Stripe-tailed Yellow-Finch  
Uniform Finch x
Coal-crested Finch x
Red-crested Finch x
Pileated Finch  
Pectoral Sparrow x
Saffron-billed Sparrow x
Grassland Sparrow x
Rufous-collared Sparrow x
Wedge-tailed Grass-Finch  
Long-tailed Reed-Finch  
Bay-chested Warbling-Finch x
Red-rumped Warbling-Finch x
Great Pampa-Finch  
Hooded Siskin x
House Sparrow x
Common Waxbill  
   
Total Species 426

x = observed     d = dead
  Sep
  2004
MAMMALS  
Jaguar x
Ocelot x
Jaguarundi x
Marsh Deer x
Brazilian Tapir x
Giant Otter x
Capybara x
Hoary Fox x
Crab-eating Fox x
South American Coati x
Collared Peccary x
Masked Titi Monkey h
Brown (Black-capped) Capuchin x
Black Howler Monkey x
Black-tailed Marmoset x
White-eared Opossum x
Brazilian Rabbit x
Azara's Agouti x
Guianan Squirrel x
Lesser Bulldog (Fishing) Bat x
   
REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS  
Spectacled Caiman x
Green Iguana x
Golden Tegu x
Tropidurus sp. (lizard) x
Marine Toad x
Horny Toad x
   
BUTTERFLIES  
Blue Morpho x
88 Butterfly x
   

A Checklist of the Birds of BRAZIL
Compiled by Mike Haldeman & Barry Walker
Bird Treks, 216 Spring Lane
Peach Bottom, PA USA 17563-4008
717-548-3303 info@birdtreks.com
www.birdtreks.com
Created by Valerie K. M. Schutsky

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