Birds of Brazil

List of Common Birds Found in Brazil

Native Birds

• Amazonian Antshrike
• Amazonian Pygmy-owl
• Amazon Kingfisher
• American Oystercatcher 
• Ash-breasted Antbird
• Ash-breasted Flycatcher
• Ash-throated Crake
• Ash-throated Gnateater
• Ashy-headed Greenlet
• Azure Jay
• Bananaquit 
• Banded Cotinga
• Band-tailed Manakin
• Band-tailed Nighthawk
• Bare-faced Curassow
• Bare-throated Bellbird
• Black-and-gold Cotinga
• Black-backed Tanager
• Black-billed Scythebill
• Black-capped Piprites
• Black-collared Hawk
• Black-eared Fairy
• Black-faced Cotinga
• Black-fronted Nunbird
• Black-girdled Barbet
• Black-goggled Tanager
• Black-headed Berryeater
• Black-headed Tanager
• Blackish Antbird
• Blackish-blue Seedeater
• Blackish Pewee
• Blackish Rail
• Black-legged Dacnis
• Black-legged Kittiwake
• Black-necked Aracari
• Black-spotted Bare-eye
• Black-tailed Leaftosser
• Black-throated Grosbeak
• Black-throated Mango
• Black-throated Saltator
• Black-throated Trogon
• Blond-crested Woodpecker
• Blue-and-white Swallow
• Blue-and-yellow Macaw
• Blue-backed Manakin
• Blue-bellied Parrot
• Blue-crowned Motmot
• Blue Dacnis
• Blue-gray Tanager 
• Blue Manakin
• Blue-tufted Starthroat
• Blue-winged Macaw
• Brazilian Merganser
• Brazilian Ruby
• Brazilian Tanager
• Brown-backed Parrotlet
• Brown Tinamou
• Buff-browed Chachalaca
• Burrowing Owl
• Capped Heron
• Capped Seedeater
• Cattle Egret
• Chalk-browed Mockingbird 
• Chestnut-bellied Guan
• Chestnut-eared Aracari
• Chestnut-headed Chachalaca
• Chilean Flamingo 
• Chimango Caracara
• Crested Caracara
• Eared Dove 
• East Brazilian Chachalaca
• Festive Parrot
• Fork-tailed Pygmy-tyrant
• Giant Snipe
• Gilded Barbet
• Gilt-edged Tanager
• Glossy Antshrike
• Golden-capped Parakeet
• Golden-green Woodpecker
• Golden Parakeet
• Gray-backed Tachuri
• Gray-bellied Spinetail
• Gray-fronted Dove
• Gray-headed Kite
• Gray-hooded Attila
• Gray-legged Tinamou
• Gray-necked Wood Rail
• Gray-winged Cotinga
• Greater Rhea
• Great Kiskadee 
• Great Potoo
• Great Rufous Woodcreeper
• Green-backed Becard
• Green-backed Trogon
• Green-headed Tanager
• Green-throated Euphonia
• Green-throated Mango
• Guianan Tyrannulet
• Guira Cuckoo
• Harpy Eagle
• Helmeted Manakin
• Hooded Visorbearer
• Hook-billed Hermit
• Horned Sungem
• Hyacinth Macaw
• Jandaya Parakeet
• Kelp Gull 
• Large-headed Flatbill
• Long-billed Gnatwren
• Long-billed Wren
• Long-tailed Tyrant
• Magellanic Woodpecker
• Magpie Tanager
• Maroon-bellied Parakeet
• Maroon-faced Parakeet
• Masked Gnatcatcher
• Monk Parakeet 
• Mottled Owl
• Moustached Antwren
• Moustached Wren
• Natterer’s Slaty-antshrike
• Neotropic Cormorant 
• Ocellated Crake
• Ochre-bellied Dove
• Ochre-cheeked Spinetail
• Pin-tailed Manakin
• Red-Crested Cardinal 
• Ruddy Ground Dove 
• Rufous-bellied Thrush
• Rufous-breasted Hermit
• Rufous-browed Peppershrike
• Rufous-capped Antthrush
• Rufous-capped Motmot
• Rufous-coll
• Rufous-headed Tanager
• Rufous Hornero
• Rufous-throated Sapphire
• Rufous-winged Antshrike
• Rufous-winged Antwren
• Rufous-winged Tanager
• Russet-crowned Crake
• Rusty-barred Owl
• Rusty-margined Flycatcher
• Rusty-margined Guan
• Saffron-billed Sparrow
• Saffron Finch 
• Saffron Toucanet
• Scaled Chachalaca
• Scarlet Ibis
• Scarlet Macaw
• Serra do Mar Tyrannulet
• Sharpbill
• Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper
• Short-tailed Antthrush
• Slaty Bristlefront
• Smooth-Billed Ani 
• Snethlage’s Tody-tyrant
• Snowy Egret
• Sooty-fronted Spinetail
• Southern Lapwing 
• Southern Screamer
• Spix’s Guan
• Spot-backed Antshrike
• Spot-billed Toucanet
• Spot-breasted Thornbird
• Spotted Rail
• Squirrel Cuckoo
• Straight-billed Reedhaunter
• Striated Softtail
• Three-toed Jacamar
• Toco Toucan
• Tropical Kingbird 
• Tropical Mockingbird 
• Unicolored Antwren
• Uniform Finch
• Variable Antshrike
• Vermillion Flycatcher 
• Vinaceous-breasted Amazon
• Violaceous Euphonia
• Violet-capped Woodnymph
• Wattled Jacana 
• White-backed Fire-eye
• White-barred Piculet
• White-bearded Manakin
• White-breasted Guan
• White-crested Guan
• Yellow-faced Parrot
• Yellow-legged Tinamou
• Yellow-olive Flatbill
• Yellow-shouldered Grosbeak
• Yellow-throated Fulvetta
• Yellow-throated Woodpecker
• Yellow-tufted Woodpecker
• Agami Heron
• Alagoas Curassow
• Alagoas Tyrannulet
• Amazonian Trogon
• American Flamingo
• Amethyst Woodstar
• Aripuana Antwren
• Ash-colored Cuckoo
• Bahia Antwren
• Bahian Nighthawk
• Bahia Tapaculo
• Bahia Tyrannulet
• Bald Parrot
• Band-rumped Swift
• Band-winged Nightjar
• Bar-breasted Piculet
• Barred Antshrike
• Bartlett’s Tinamou
• Biscutate Swift
• Black-and-white Tody-flycatcher
• Black-bellied Cuckoo
• Black-bellied Gnateater
• Black-bellied Thorntail
• Black Bushbird
• Black-capped Antwren
• Black-capped Tinamou
• Black-cheeked Gnateater
• Black-crowned Night-heron
• Black Curassow
• Black-fronted Piping-guan
• Black-fronted Tyrannulet
• Blackish-gray Antshrike
• Blackish Nightjar
• Black Jacobin
• Black-spotted Barbet
• Black-tailed Trogon
• Black-throated Brilliant
• Blaze-winged Parakeet
• Blue-cheeked Jacamar
• Blue-chinned Sapphire
• Blue-crowned Trogon
• Blue-eyed Ground Dove
• Blue-fronted Lancebill
• Blue-headed Parrot
• Blue-tailed Emerald
• Blue-throated Piping-guan
• Blue-winged Teal
• Bluish-fronted Jacamar
• Boa Nova Tapaculo
• Boat-billed Heron
• Bolivian Slaty-antshrike
• Brasilia Tapaculo
• Brazilian Teal
• Brazilian Tinamou
• Broad-tipped Hermit
• Bronzy Jacamar
• Brown-chested Barbet
• Brown-throated Parakeet
• Brown Violetear
• Buff-bellied Hermit
• Buff-breasted Sabrewing
• Buff-breasted Tody-tyrant
• Buff-cheeked Tody-flycatcher
• Buff-fronted Owl
• Buff-throated Purpletuft
• Buff-throated Woodcreeper
• Buff-winged Cinclodes
• Butterfly Coquette
• Caatinga Antwren
• Cactus Parakeet
• Canary-winged Parakeet
• Castelnau’s Antshrike
• Ceara Gnateater
• Ceara Woodcreeper
• Chaco Chachalaca
• Chaco Earthcreeper
• Chapman’s Bristle-tyrant
• Chapman’s Swift
• Chestnut-backed Antshrike
• Chestnut-belted Gnateater
• Chestnut-headed Nunlet
• Chestnut-rumped Woodcreeper
• Chiloe Wigeon
• Chimney Swift
• Cinereous Tinamou
• Cinnamon Teal
• Cinnamon-throated Hermit
• Cobalt-winged Parakeet
• Collared Trogon
• Common Ground Dove
• Common Pauraque
• Common Potoo
• Cream-backed Woodpecker
• Cream-colored Woodpecker
• Crescent-chested Puffbird
• Crestless Curassow
• Crimson-bellied Parakeet
• Crimson-crested Woodpecker
• Crimson Topaz
• Cryptic Treehunter
• Curl-crested Aracari
• Curve-billed Reedhaunter
• Curve-billed Scythebill
• Dark-billed Cuckoo
• Dark-winged Trumpeter
• Diamantina Sabrewing
• Diamantina Tapaculo
• Dot-eared Coquette
• Duida Woodcreeper
• Dusky-capped Woodcreeper
• Dusky-cheeked Foliage-gleaner
• Dusky-headed Parakeet
• Dusky-legged Guan
• Dusky Parrot
• Dusky-throated Hermit
• Dwarf Tinamou
• Elegant Woodcreeper
• Eye-ringed Tody-tyrant
• Fasciated Tiger-heron
• Fawn-breasted Wren
• Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
• Festive Coquette
• Fiery-tailed Awlbill
• Fiery Topaz
• Fork-tailed Woodnymph
• Frilled Coquette
• Fulvous-chinned Nunlet
• Gilded Hummingbird
• Glittering-bellied Emerald
• Glittering-throated Emerald
• Golden-spangled Piculet
• Golden-tailed Parrotlet
• Golden-tailed Sapphire
• Golden-winged Parakeet
• Gould’s Jewelfront
• Gray-breasted Parakeet
• Gray-breasted Sabrewing
• Gray-chinned Hermit
• Gray-rumped Swift
• Gray Tinamou
• Gray-winged Trumpeter
• Gray Wren
• Great-billed Hermit
• Great Grebe
• Great Jacamar
• Great Tinamou
• Great Xenops
• Green Aracari
• Green-bellied Hummingbird
• Green-cheeked Parakeet
• Green-crowned Plovercrest
• Green-tailed Goldenthroat
• Green-tailed Jacamar
• Guianan Trogon
• Guianan Woodcreeper
• Hangnest Tody-tyrant
• Helmeted Woodpecker
• Hoatzin
• Hoffmanns’s Woodcreeper
• Hooded Gnateater
• Horned Screamer
• Hyacinth Visorbearer
• Inambari Gnatcatcher
• Inambari Woodcreeper
• Indigo Macaw
• Ivory-billed Aracari
• Johannes’s Tody-tyrant
• Kaempfer’s Tody-tyrant
• Kaempfer’s Woodpecker
• Kawall’s Parrot
• Kinglet Calyptura
• Kinglet Manakin
• Lafresnaye’s Piculet
• Lanceolated Monklet
• Least Bittern
• Least Grebe
• Least Pygmy-owl
• Lemon-throated Barbet
• Lesser Hornero
• Lesser Nothura
• Lesser Woodcreeper
• Lettered Aracari
• Limpkin
• Lineated Woodpecker
• Little Tinamou
• Long-billed Starthroat
• Long-tailed Cinclodes
• Long-tailed Hermit
• Long-tailed Potoo
• Long-tailed Woodnymph
• Mangrove Cuckoo
• Many-banded Aracari
• Marail Guan
• Marbled Wood-quail
• Marsh Tapaculo
• Masked Trogon
• Mealy Parrot
• Minas Gerais Tyrannulet
• Minute Hermit
• Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet
• Mouse-colored Antshrike
• Mouse-colored Tapaculo
• Moustached Woodcreeper
• Musician Wren
• Nanday Parakeet
• Narrow-billed Woodcreeper
• Needle-billed Hermit
• Nocturnal Curassow
• Northern Slaty-antshrike
• Ocellated Woodcreeper
• Ochraceous Piculet
• Ochre-backed Woodpecker
• Ochre-collared Piculet
• Ochre-marked Parakeet
• Oilbird
• Olive-green Tyrannulet
• Olive-spotted Hummingbird
• Orinoco Piculet
• Oustalet’s Tyrannulet
• Outcrop Sabrewing
• Pale-billed Hornero
• Pale-browed Treehunter
• Pale-legged Hornero
• Pale-rumped Swift
• Pale-tailed Barbthroat
• Pale-winged Trumpeter
• Paradise Jacamar
• Pavonine Quetzal
• Peach-fronted Parakeet
• Peacock Coquette
• Pearly Antshrike
• Pearly-breasted Cuckoo
• Pearly Parakeet
• Pearly-vented Tody-tyrant
• Pectoral Antwren
• Pelzeln’s Tody-tyrant
• Pernambuco Pygmy-owl
• Pfrimer’s Parakeet
• Picui Ground Dove
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Pileated Parrot
• Pinnated Bittern
• Plain Antvireo
• Plain-bellied Emerald
• Plain-breasted Ground Dove
• Plain Parakeet
• Plain-winged Antshrike
• Plain Xenops
• Planalto Hermit
• Planalto Slaty-antshrike
• Planalto Tapaculo
• Plumbeous Antvireo
• Point-tailed Palmcreeper
• Predicted Antwren
• Purple-crowned Plovercrest
• Purple-winged Ground Dove
• Purplish Jacamar
• Pygmy Nightjar
• Racket-tailed Thorntail
• Razor-billed Curassow
• Red-billed Curassow
• Red-billed Scythebill
• Red-browed Parrot
• Reddish Hermit
• Red-legged Tinamou
• Red-necked Aracari
• Red-necked Woodpecker
• Red Shoveler
• Red-spectacled Parrot
• Red-tailed Parrot
• Red-throated Piping-guan
• Red-winged Tinamou
• Restinga Tyrannulet
• Ringed Woodpecker
• Robust Woodpecker
• Rock Tapaculo
• Rondonia Bushbird
• Roraiman Antwren
• Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
• Rufescent Tiger-heron
• Rufous-backed Antvireo
• Rufous-breasted Sabrewing
• Rufous-capped Antshrike
• Rufous-capped Nunlet
• Rufous Gnateater
• Rufous-headed Woodpecker
• Rufous-necked Puffbird
• Rufous Potoo
• Rufous-tailed Jacamar
• Rufous-tailed Xenops
• Rusty-belted Tapaculo
• Rusty-breasted Nunlet
• Rusty Tinamou
• São Paulo Bristle-tyrant
• Sapphire-spangled Emerald
• Saw-billed Hermit
• Scale-breasted Woodpecker
• Scaled Dove
• Scaled Woodcreeper
• Scale-throated Hermit
• Scalloped Woodcreeper
• Scaly-headed Parrot
• Scarlet-hooded Barbet
• Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper
• Serra Do Mar Bristle-tyrant
• Short-eared Owl
• Short-tailed Nighthawk
• Short-tailed Parrot
• Short-tailed Swift
• Sick’s Swift
• Silver Teal
• Silvery-cheeked Antshrike
• Silvery Grebe
• Slender-billed Xenops
• Small-billed Tinamou
• Solitary Tinamou
• Sombre Hummingbird
• Sooretama Slaty-antshrike
• Sooty Barbthroat
• Sooty-capped Hermit
• Southern Bristle-tyrant
• Spangled Coquette
• Sparkling Violetear
• Speckled Chachalaca
• Spix’s Woodcreeper
• Spot-backed Antwren
• Spot-breasted Antvireo
• Spot-tailed Antwren
• Spotted Bamboowren
• Spotted Nothura
• Spotted Piculet
• Spot-winged Wood-quail
• Star-throated Antwren
• Straight-billed Hermit
• Straight-billed Woodcreeper
• Streaked Xenops
• Streak-headed Woodcreeper
• Streak-throated Hermit
• Stresemann’s Bristlefront
• Striated Heron
• Stripe-backed Bittern
• Stripe-breasted Starthroat
• Striped Owl
• Striped Woodcreeper
• Stripe-necked Tody-tyrant
• Stygian Owl
• Such’s Antthrush
• Sulphur-breasted Parakeet
• Sungrebe
• Sun Parakeet
• Surucua Trogon
• Swallow-tailed Hummingbird
• Tapajos Hermit
• Tataupa Tinamou
• Tepui Toucanet
• Todd’s Antwren
• Tufted Coquette
• Turquoise-fronted Parrot
• Undulated Tinamou
• Variable Chachalaca
• Variegated Tinamou
• Varzea Piculet
• Velvet-browed Brilliant
• Versicolored Emerald
• Vulturine Parrot
• Wattled Curassow
• Waved Woodpecker
• White-bearded Antshrike
• White-bearded Hermit
• White-bellied Hummingbird
• White-bellied Nothura
• White-bellied Piculet
• White-breasted Tapaculo
• White-breasted Wood-wren
• White-browed Guan
• White-cheeked Pintail
• White-cheeked Tody-flycatcher
• White-chested Emerald
• White-chinned Jacamar
• White-chinned Sapphire
• White-collared Foliage-gleaner
• White-collared Kite
• White-naped Jay
• White-necked Hawk
• White-necked Jacobin
• White-tailed Goldenthroat
• White-throated Hummingbird
• White-throated Tinamou
• White-throated Woodcreeper
• White-tipped Swift
• White-tufted Grebe
• White-vented Violetear
• White-winged Potoo
• Wing-banded Hornero
• Wren-like Rushbird
• Yellow-billed Cuckoo
• Yellow-billed Jacamar
• Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
• Yellow-crowned Night-heron
• Yellow-crowned Parrot
• Yellow-eared Woodpecker
• Zigzag Heron
• Zimmer’s Tody-tyrant
• Zimmer’s Woodcreeper

Non-native Birds

• Common Waxbill
• European Goldfinch
• European Starling
• House Sparrow
• Rock Pigeon

Besides the Amazon rainforest, there are several other birding sites, including Iguazu Falls National Park, Itatiaia National Park, and the wetlands of Pantanal. The dry season might be the most suitable time to see the variety of birds here, as sparse vegetation makes them more visible.