Southeast Brazil Bird List

On Southeast Brazil and Iguazu Falls trips, we've cumulatively seen 400 species of birds, including the following. As always, some are common, some not so common, and some rare and/or difficult to find.

  • White-faced Whistling-Duck      

  • Black-bellied Whistling-Duck

  • Muscovy Duck 

  • Brazilian Teal     

  • Masked Duck    

  • Rusty-margined Guan   

  • Dusky-legged Guan        

  • Black-fronted Piping-Guan          

  • Spot-winged Wood-Quail            

  • Bare-faced Curassow    

  • Least Grebe       

  • Magnificent Frigatebird                

  • Neotropic Cormorant    

  • Anhinga              

  • Rufescent Tiger-Heron  

  • Yellow-crowned Night-Heron     

  • Striated Heron

  • Cattle Egret       

  • Cocoi Heron      

  • Great Egret        

  • Whistling Heron              

  • Capped Heron  

  • Snowy Egret      

  • Little Blue Heron             

  • Turkey Vulture

  • Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture    

  • Black Vulture    

  • Snail Kite            

  • Crane Hawk       

  • Savanna Hawk  

  • White-necked Hawk      

  • Roadside Hawk

  • White-tailed Hawk         

  • Mantled Hawk 

  • Black Hawk-Eagle            

  • Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle      

  • Gray-necked Wood-Rail

  • Slaty-breasted Wood-Rail            

  • Rufous-sided Crake        

  • Ash-throated Crake        

  • Blackish Rail      

  • Common Gallinule          

  • Purple Gallinule               

  • Southern Lapwing          

  • Giant Snipe        

  • South American Snipe   

  • Wattled Jacana

  • Kelp Gull             

  • Ruddy Ground-Dove     

  • Blue Ground-Dove         

  • Rock Dove          

  • Picazuro Pigeon               

  • Pale-vented Pigeon        

  • Plumbeous Pigeon         

  • Eared Dove        

  • White-tipped Dove        

  • Gray-fronted Dove          

  • Ruddy Quail-Dove          

  • Squirrel Cuckoo

  • Greater Ani       

  • Smooth-billed Ani           

  • Guira Cuckoo    

  • Pavonine Cuckoo             

  • Tropical Screech-Owl     

  • Tawny-browed Owl        

  • Mottled Owl     

  • Burrowing Owl 

  • Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl

  • Common Pauraque        

  • Scissor-tailed Nightjar

  • Great Dusky Swift           

  • Sooty Swift        

  • White-collared Swift

  • Biscutate Swift 

  • Gray-rumped Swift         

  • Sick's Swift         

  • Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift         

  • Black Jacobin    

  • Saw-billed Hermit           

  • Rufous-breasted Hermit

  • Reddish Hermit                

  • Scale-throated Hermit   

  • Black-throated Mango  

  • Frilled Coquette               

  • Brazilian Ruby  

  • Glittering-bellied Emerald           

  • Green-crowned Plovercrest        

  • Swallow-tailed Hummingbird     

  • Violet-capped Woodnymph       

  • Sombre Hummingbird  

  • White-throated Hummingbird  

  • Versicolored Emerald    

  • Glittering-throated Emerald       

  • White-chinned Sapphire              

  • Surucua Trogon

  • Atlantic Black-throated Trogon  

  • Ringed Kingfisher            

  • Amazon Kingfisher         

  • Rufous-capped Motmot              

  • Rufous-tailed Jacamar   

  • Crescent-chested Puffbird          

  • Toco Toucan      

  • Channel-billed Toucan  

  • Red-breasted Toucan    

  • Spot-billed Toucanet      

  • Chestnut-eared Aracari

  • White-barred Piculet     

  • Ochre-collared Piculet  

  • White-wedged Piculet   

  • White Woodpecker        

  • Yellow-fronted Woodpecker       

  • Yellow-eared Woodpecker          

  • Yellow-throated Woodpecker    

  • White (yellow)-browed Woodpecker     

  • Green-barred Woodpecker         

  • Campo Flicker   

  • Blond-crested Woodpecker        

  • Lineated Woodpecker   

  • Robust Woodpecker      

  • Red-legged Seriema       

  • Laughing Falcon               

  • Southern Caracara          

  • Yellow-headed Caracara               

  • American Kestrel             

  • White-eyed Parakeet     

  • Maroon-bellied Parakeet             

  • Blue-winged Parrotlet   

  • Plain Parakeet   

  • Brown-backed Parrotlet

  • Golden-tailed Parrotlet 

  • Red-capped (Pileated) Parrot     

  • Scaly-headed Parrot       

  • Spot-backed Antshrike  

  • Giant Antshrike

  • Large-tailed Antshrike   

  • Great Antshrike               

  • Rufous-capped Antshrike            

  • Chestnut-backed Antshrike         

  • Sooretama Slaty-Antshrike         

  • Variable Antshrike          

  • Spot-breasted Antvireo

  • Plain Antvireo  

  • Rufous-backed Antvireo              

  • Star-throated Antwren 

  • White-flanked Antwren                

  • Unicolored Antwren      

  • Rufous-winged Antwren             

  • Ferruginous Antbird      

  • Bertoni's Antbird            

  • Rufous-tailed Antbird    

  • Ochre-rumped Antbird

  • Dusky-tailed Antbird     

  • Scaled Antbird 

  • Streak-capped Antwren

  • White-shouldered Fire-eye         

  • White-bibbed Antbird   

  • Rufous Gnateater            

  • Black-cheeked Gnateater             

  • Mouse-colored Tapaculo             

  • Slaty Bristlefront             

  • Rufous-capped Antthrush           

  • Rufous-tailed (Brazilian) Antthrush         

  • Olivaceous Woodcreeper

  • Plain-brown Woodcreeper         

  • White-throated Woodcreeper   

  • Lesser Woodcreeper

  • Red-billed Scythebill      

  • Black-billed Scythebill    

  • Plain Xenops     

  • Streaked Xenops             

  • Wing-banded Hornero  

  • Rufous Hornero               

  • Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper       

  • Pale-browed Treehunter              

  • Sharp-billed Treehunter

  • Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner

  • Black-capped Foliage-gleaner    

  • Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner      

  • White-browed Foliage-gleaner  

  • White-eyed Foliage-gleaner       

  • Orange-eyed Thornbird

  • Pallid Spinetail  

  • Yellow-chinned Spinetail      

  • Rufous-capped Spinetail              

  • Spix's (Chicli) Spinetail   

  • Rough-legged Tyrannulet            

  • White-crested Tyrannulet           

  • Planalto Tyrannulet       

  • Gray-capped Tyrannulet              

  • Greenish Elaenia             

  • Yellow-bellied Elaenia   

  • Olivaceous Elaenia         

  • Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet

  • Yellow Tyrannulet           

  • Southern Antpipit           

  • Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet

  • Serra do Mar Tyrannulet             

  • Gray-hooded Flycatcher

  • Ochre-bellied Flycatcher              

  • Sepia-capped Flycatcher              

  • Eared Pygmy-Tyrant      

  • Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant

  • Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant          

  • Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher     

  • Gray-headed Tody-Flycatcher    

  • Common Tody-Flycatcher            

  • Yellow-olive Flatbill (Flycatcher)

  • Ochre-lored Flatbill (Flycatcher)

  • White-throated Spadebill            

  • Bran-colored Flycatcher

  • Whiskered Flycatcher    

  • Cliff Flycatcher 

  • Euler's Flycatcher            

  • Fuscous Flycatcher         

  • Tropical Pewee

  • Vermilion Flycatcher      

  • Blue-billed Black-Tyrant

  • Crested Black-Tyrant      

  • Velvety Black-Tyrant      

  • Yellow-browed Tyrant   

  • Shear-tailed Gray Tyrant              

  • White-rumped Monjita

  • Streamer-tailed Tyrant 

  • Masked Water-Tyrant   

  • White-headed Marsh-Tyrant     

  • Long-tailed Tyrant          

  • Cattle Tyrant     

  • Social Flycatcher             

  • Great Kiskadee

  • Streaked Flycatcher        

  • Boat-billed Flycatcher    

  • Tropical Kingbird             

  • Fork-tailed Flycatcher    

  • Grayish Mourner            

  • Dusky-capped Flycatcher             

  • Short-crested Flycatcher              

  • Gray-hooded Attila         

  • Sharpbill             

  • Hooded Berryeater        

  • Black-and-gold Cotinga 

  • Bare-throated Bellbird  

  • Serra do Mar Tyrant-Manakin

  • Pin-tailed Manakin         

  • White-bearded Manakin             

  • Swallow-tailed (Blue) Manakin  

  • Red-headed Manakin    

  • Band-tailed Manakin     

  • Black-tailed Tityra           

  • Green-backed Becard    

  • Chestnut-crowned Becard

  • White-winged Becard    

  • Black-capped Becard     

  • Crested Becard

  • Swallow-tailed Cotinga 

  • Rufous-browed Peppershrike    

  • Red-eyed (Chivi) Vireo  

  • Rufous-crowned Greenlet           

  • Lemon-chested Greenlet             

  • Plush-crested Jay            

  • Curl-crested Jay

  • Blue-and-white Swallow

  • Black-collared Swallow 

  • Tawny-headed Swallow

  • White-thighed Swallow                

  • Southern Rough-winged Swallow            

  • Brown-chested Martin  

  • Gray-breasted Martin    

  • White-winged Swallow 

  • White-rumped Swallow               

  • House Wren      

  • Moustached Wren          

  • Long-billed Wren Wren

  • Yellow-legged Thrush

  • Pale-breasted Thrush    

  • Rufous-bellied Thrush   

  • Creamy-bellied Thrush 

  • Chalk-browed Mockingbird        

  • Yellow-billed Cardinal    

  • Cinnamon Tanager         

  • Brown Tanager

  • Magpie Tanager               

  • Hooded Tanager              

  • Black-goggled Tanager  

  • Flame-crested Tanager

  • Ruby-crowned Tanager 

  • Brazilian Tanager             

  • Sayaca Tanager

  • Azure-shouldered Tanager          

  • Golden-chevroned Tanager        

  • Chestnut-headed Tanager           

  • Palm Tanager    

  • Diademed Tanager         

  • Fawn-breasted Tanager

  • Chestnut-vented Conebill            

  • Burnished-buff Tanager                

  • Green-headed Tanager 

  • Red-necked Tanager      

  • Brassy-breasted Tanager              

  • Gilt-edged Tanager         

  • White-bellied Tanager   

  • Swallow Tanager             

  • Blue Dacnis       

  • Green Honeycreeper     

  • Guira Tanager   

  • Rufous-headed Tanager

  • Yellow-backed Tanager

  • Bay-chested Warbling-Finch       

  • Saffron Finch

  • Blue-black Grassquit      

  • Sooty Grassquit

  • Uniform Finch  

  • Temminck's Seedeater  

  • Double-collared Seedeater         

  • Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch      

  • Pileated Finch   

  • Red-crested Finch           

  • Bananaquit       

  • Black-throated Grosbeak             

  • Buff-throated Saltator   

  • Green-winged Saltator  

  • Thick-billed Saltator       

  • Golden-billed Saltator   

  • Grassland Sparrow         

  • Rufous-collared Sparrow             

  • Red-crowned Ant-Tanager          

  • Yellow-green Grosbeak

  • Tropical Parula

  • Golden-crowned Warbler            

  • White-browed (rimmed) Warbler            

  • Crested Oropendola      

  • Red-rumped Cacique     

  • Variable Oriole 

  • Chestnut-capped Blackbird         

  • Shiny Cowbird  

  • Giant Cowbird  

  • White-browed Blackbird              

  • Hooded Siskin  

  • Purple-throated Euphonia          

  • Violaceous Euphonia

  • Orange-bellied Euphonia             

  • Chestnut-bellied Euphonia         

  • Blue-naped Chlorophonia           

  • Common Waxbill