Central Colombia Bird List

Central Colombia is a biologically rich area, and we've seen about 400 species along our 12-day route. This list includes species seen on past trips. As usual, some are common, some less common, and some quite rare. I have not included some species that are widespread and fairly common throughout the neotropics.

  • Andean Teal

  • (Andean) Ruddy Duck

  • Andean Guan

  • Sickle-winged Guan

  • Colombian Chachalaca

  • Chestnut Wood-quail

  • Band-tailed Pigeon

  • Pale-vented Pigeon

  • Ruddy Pigeon

  • Plumbeous Pigeon

  • Eared Dove

  • White-throated Quail-dove  

  • Lined Quail-dove

  • Spectacled Owl

  • Tropical Screech-Owl  

  • Common Potoo

  • White-collared Swift

  • Chestnut-collared Swift

  • Gray-rumped Swift

  • White-whiskered Hermit

  • Green Hermit

  • Tawny-bellied Hermit

  • Green-fronted Lancebill

  • White-throated (Choco) Daggerbill

  • Brown Violetear

  • Lesser (Green) Violetear

  • Sparkling Violetear

  • Western Emerald

  • Crowned Woodnymph

  • Andean Emerald

  • Speckled Hummingbird

  • Empress Brilliant

  • Fawn-breasted Brilliant

  • Buffy Helmetcrest

  • Shining Sunbeam

  • Bronzy Inca

  • Brown Inca

  • Collared Inca    

  • Buff-winged Starfrontlet

  • Rufous-gaped Hillstar

  • Purple-bibbed Whitetip

  • Greenish Puffleg

  • Black-thighed Puffleg

  • Golden-breasted Puffleg

  • Great Sapphirewing               

  • Buff-tailed Coronet

  • Velvet-purple Coronet

  • Tourmaline Sunangel

  • Rainbow-bearded Thornbill

  • Purple-backed Thornbill

  • Booted Racket-tail

  • Tyrian Metaltail  

  • Viridian Metaltail

  • Mountain Velvetbreast

  • Long-tailed Sylph

  • Violet-tailed Sylph

  • Long-billed Starthroat

  • Purple-throated Woodstar

  • White-bellied Woodstar

  • Blackish Rail

  • Andean Condor

  • Swallow-tailed Kite

  • Sharp-shinned (Plain-breasted) Hawk

  • Barred Hawk

  • Variable Hawk

  • White-tailed Hawk

  • Black Hawk-eagle

  • Black-and-chestnut Eagle  

  • Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle

  • Tropical Screech-owl

  • Southern Lapwing

  • Golden-headed Quetzal

  • Collared Trogon

  • Masked Trogon

  • Andean Motmot

  • Red-headed Barbet

  • Toucan Barbet

  • Southern Emerald Toucanet

  • Crimson-rumped Toucanet

  • Gray-breasted Mountain-toucan

  • Black-billed Mountain-toucan

  • Acorn Woodpecker

  • Grayish Piculet

  • Crimson-mantled Woodpecker

  • Golden-olive Woodpecker

  • Lineated Woodpecker  

  • Yellow-vented Woodpecker

  • Bar-bellied Woodpecker

  • Powerful Woodpecker

  • Golden-plumed Parakeet

  • Rufous-fronted Parakeet

  • Scarlet-fronted Parakeet

  • Spectacled Parrotlet

  • Rusty-faced Parrot

  • Speckle-faced (White-capped) Parrot

  • Bronze-winged Parrot

  • Blue-headed Parrot

  • Scaly-naped Parrot

  • Yellow-eared Parrot

  • Carunculated Caracara

  • Uniform Antshrike

  • Bar-crested Antshrikey

  • Black-crowned Anthrike

  • Parker's Antbird

  • Slaty Antwren

  • Rufous-rumped Antwren

  • Yellow-breasted Antwren

  • Streak-headed Antbird

  • Spillmann's Tapaculo

  • Stiles' Tapaculo

  • Narino Tapaculo

  • Tatama (Alto Pisones) Tapaculo

  • Blackish Tapaculo

  • Paramo Tapaculo

  • Ash-colored Tapaculo

  • Bicolored Antpitta

  • Brown-banded Antpitta

  • Chestnut-crowned Antpitta

  • Yellow-breasted Antpitta

  • Slate-crowned Antpitta

  • Crescent-faced Antpitta

  • Tawny Antpitta

  • Chestnut-naped Antpitta

  • Chami (Rufous) Antpitta

  • Equatorial (Rufous) Antpitta

  • Stout-billed Cinclodes

  • White-chinned Thistletail

  • Andean Tit-spinetail

  • White-browed Spinetail 

  • Azara's Spinetail

  • Slaty Spinetail

  • Pale-breasted Spinetail

  • Red-faced Spinetail

  • Rufous Spinetail

  • Many-striped Canastero

  • Spotted Barbtail

  • Streaked Tuftedcheek

  • Buffy Tuftedcheek

  • Pearled Treerunner

  • Fulvous-dotted Treerunner

  • Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner

  • Lineated Foliage-gleaner

  • Montane Foliage-gleaner

  • Western (Striped) Woodhaunter

  • Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner

  • Striped Treehunter

  • Uniform Treehunter

  • Streak-capped Treehunter

  • Tyrannine WoodcreeperBlack-banded Woodcreeper

  • Strong-billed Woodcreeper

  • Spotted Woodcreeper

  • Streak-headed Woodcreeper

  • Cocoa Woodcreeper

  • Montane Woodcreeper

  • Ashy-headed Tyrannulet

  • Plumbeous-crowned Tyrannulet

  • White-banded Tyrannulet

  • Torrent Tyrannulet

  • White-throated Tyrannulet

  • Streak-necked Flycatcher

  • Olive-striped Flycatcher

  • Slaty-capped Flycatcher

  • Marble-faced Bristle-tyrant

  • Variegated Bristle-tyrant

  • Rufous-breasted Flycatcher

  • Ornate Flycatcher

  • Rufous-headed Pygmy-tyrant

  • Bronze-olive Pygmy-tyrant

  • Scale-crested Pygmy-tyrant

  • Golden-faced Tyrannulet

  • Rufous-crowned Tody-flycatcher

  • Common Tody-flycatcher

  • Slate-headed Tody-flycatcher

  • Fulvous-breasted Flatbill

  • Handsome Flycatcher

  • Cinnamon Flycatcher

  • Long-tailed Tyrant

  • Smoke-colored Pewee

  • Brown-backed Chat-tyrant

  • Rufous-breasted Chat-tyrant

  • Slaty-backed Chat-tyrant

  • Yellow-bellied Chat-tyrant

  • Crowned Chat-tyrant

  • Smoky Bush-tyrant

  • Streak-throated Bush-tyrant

  • Pale-edged Flycatcher

  • Apical Flycatcher

  • Rusty-margined Flycatcher

  • Golden-bellied Flycatcher

  • Golden-winged Manakin

  • Yellow-headed Manakin

  • White-winged Becard

  • Barred Becard

  • Cinnamon Becard

  • Red-crested Cotinga

  • Green-and-black Fruiteater

  • Barred Fruiteater

  • Orange-breasted Fruiteater

  • Olivaceous Piha

  • Dusky Piha

  • Andean Cock-of-the-Rock

  • Black-collared Jay

  • Beautiful Jay

  • Black-chested Jay

  • Green (Inca) Jay

  • Black-billed Peppershrike

  • Brown-capped Vireo

  • Choco Vireo

  • Rufous-naped Greenlet

  • Andean Solitaire

  • Black Solitaire

  • Orange-billed Nightingale-Thrush

  • Glossy-black Thrush

  • Great Thrush

  • Black-billed Thrush

  • White-capped Dipper

  • Gray-breasted Martin

  • Brown-bellied Swallow

  • Blue-and-white Swallow

  • White-thighed Swallow

  • White-headed Wren

  • Rufous Wren

  • Whiskered Wren

  • Antioquia Wren

  • Sooty-headed Wren

  • Bay Wren

  • Mountain Wren

  • Grass Wren

  • Gray-breasted Wood-wren

  • Sharpe's (Sepia-brown) Wren

  • Chestnut-breasted Wren

  • Tropical Gnatcatcher

  • Rufous-crested Tanager

  • Guira Tanager  

  • Purplish-mantled Tanager

  • Golden-crowned Tanager

  • Black-and-gold Tanager

  • Gold-ringed Tanager

  • Fawn-breasted Tanager

  • Glistening-green Tanager

  • Multicolored Tanager

  • Rufous-throated Tanager

  • Golden Tanager

  • Emerald Tanager

  • Silver-throated Tanager

  • Scrub Tanager

  • Saffron-crowned Tanager

  • Beryl-spangled Tanager

  • Blue-and-black Tanager

  • Golden-naped Tanager

  • Metallic-green Tanager

  • Black-capped Tanager

  • Blue-necked Tanager

  • Golden-hooded Tanager

  • Bay-headed Tanager

  • Scarlet-bellied Mountain-tanager

  • Lacrimose Mountain-tanager

  • Blue-winged Mountain-tanager

  • Black-chinned Mountain-tanager

  • Hooded Mountain-tanager

  • Buff-breasted Mountain-tanager

  • Grass-green Tanager

  • Blue-gray Tanager

  • Palm Tanager

  • Blue-capped Tanager

  • Flame-rumped Tanager

  • White-lined Tanager

  • Green Honeycreeper

  • Gray-hooded Bush-Tanager

  • Blue-backed Conebill

  • Capped Conebill

  • Glossy Flowerpiercer

  • Bluish Flowerpiercer

  • Masked Flowerpiercer

  • Black Flowerpiercer

  • White-sided Flowerpiercer

  • Indigo Flowerpiercer

  • Black-capped Hemispingus

  • Black-eared Hemispingus

  • Black-headed Hemispingus

  • Oleaginous Hemispingus

  • Superciliaried Hemispingus

  • Plushcap

  • Masked Saltator

  • Black-winged Saltator

  • Blue-black Grassquit

  • Yellow-bellied Seedeater

  • Ruddy-breasted Seedeater

  • Páramo Seedeater

  • Plain-colored Seedeater

  • Large-billed Seedfinch

  • Plumbeous Sierra-finch

  • Crested Ant-tanager

  • Russet-crowned Warbler

  • Buff-rumped Warbler

  • Three-striped Warbler

  • Golden-crowned Warbler

  • Tropical Parula

  • Slate-throated Whitestart

  • Golden-fronted Whitestart    

  • Pale-naped Brushfinch

  • White-naped Brushfinch

  • Slaty Brushfinch

  • Chestnut-capped Brushfinch

  • Gray-browed Brushfinch

  • Tricolored Brushfinch

  • Black-striped Sparrow

  • Rufous-collared Sparrow

  • Olive Finch

  • Tanager Finch

  • Common Chlorospingus

  • Ashy-throated Chlorospingus

  • Dusky Chlorospingus

  • Yellow-throated Chlorospingus

  • Russet-backed Oropendola  

  • (Northern) Mountain Cacique

  • Yellow-backed Oriole

  • Yellow-tailed Oriole

  • Red-bellied Grackle

  • Carib Grackle

  • Lesser Goldfinch

  • Andean Siskin

  • Yellow-bellied Siskin

  • Thick-billed Euphonia

  • Golden-rumped Euphonia

  • Orange-bellied Euphonia     

  • Yellow-collared Chlorophonia

  • Chestnut-breasted Chlorophonia