Birds of Paraguay

List of Common Birds Found in Paraguay

Native Birds

• Amazonian Motmot
• Amazon Kingfisher
• Azure Jay
• Bananaquit 
• Band-tailed Antbird
• Bare-faced Curassow
• Bare-throated Bellbird
• Black-and-rufous Warbling Finch
• Black-backed Water Tyrant
• Black-banded Woodcreeper
• Black-bellied Cuckoo
• Black-bellied Storm Petrel
• Black-bellied Whistling-duck
• Black-capped Antwren
• Black-capped Donacobius
• Black-capped Screech Owl
• Black-capped Warbler
• Black-capped Warbling Finch
• Black-chested Tyrant
• Black-collared Hawk
• Black-crowned Tityra
• Black-fronted Nunbird
• Black-hooded Parakeet
• Black Jacobin
• Black-legged Dacnis
• Black-masked Finch
• Black-tailed Tityra
• Black-throated Mango
• Black-throated Saltator
• Blue-and-yellow Macaw
• Blue-crowned Trogon
• Brown-and-yellow Marshbird
• Brown Cacholote
• Brown-chested Martin
• Brown Jacamar
• Brown Tinamou
• Burrowing Owl
• Cattle Egret
• Chalk-browed Mockingbird 
• Chestnut-eared Aracari
• Chestnut-fronted Macaw
• Chotoy Spinetail
• Cinereous Conebill
• Cinereous Tyrant
• Cinereous Warbling Finch
• Collared Crescentchest
• Collared Gnatwren
• Collared Plover
• Collared Trogon
• Cream-backed Woodpecker
• Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher
• Crested Caracara
• Crested Doradito
• Crested Oropendola
• Dark-throated Seedeater
• Eared Dove 
• Flavescent Warbler
• Giant Snipe
• Giant Wood Rail
• Glittering-bellied Emerald
• Golden-billed Saltator
• Golden-collared Macaw
• Golden-crowned Warbler
• Golden-winged Cacique
• Greater Rhea
• Greater Thornbird
• Great Kiskadee 
• Great Pampa-finch
• Green-barred Woodpecker
• Green-winged Saltator
• Guira Cuckoo
• Guira Tanager
• Harpy Eagle
• Helmeted Manakin
• Helmeted Woodpecker
• Hyacinth Macaw
• Jabiru Stork
• Large-tailed Antshrike
• Lesser Grass Finch
• Long-winged Harrier
• Maguari Stork
• Monk Parakeet 
• Nacunda Nighthawk
• Neotropic Cormorant 
• Orange-eyed Thornbird
• Painted-snipe
• Pale-breasted Spinetail
• Pale-crested Woodpecker
• Pale-vented Pigeon
• Planalto Hermit
• Plumbeous Kite
• Plush-crested Jay
• Puffbird
• Red-crested Cardinal 
• Red-crested Finch
• Red-eyed Vireo
• Red-legged Honeycreeper
• Red-legged Seriema
• Red-rumped Cacique
• Ringed Kingfisher
• Ringed Teal
• Ruddy Ground Dove 
• Rufous-bellied Thrush 
• Rufous-browed Peppershrike
• Rufous-capped Antthrush
• Rufous-capped Spinetail
• Rufous Casiornis
• Rufous-coll
• Rufous-crowned Tody-Flycatcher
• Rufous Hornero 
• Rufous-rumped Seedeater
• Rufous-tailed Jacamar
• Rufous-winged Antshrike
• Rusty-backed Antwren
• Rusty-collared Seedeater
• Saffron Finch
• Savanna Hawk
• Scaly-headed Parrot
• Smooth-billed Ani 
• Snowy Egret
• Solitary Tinamou
• Sooty Tyrannulet
• Southern Antpipit
• Southern Bristle Tyrant
• Southern Lapwing
• Southern Screamer
• Southern Scrub Flycatcher
• Spectacled Tyrant
• Spotted Nothura
• Straight-billed Reedhaunter
• Streamer-tailed Tyrant
• Stripe-backed Bittern
• Sulphur-bearded Spinetail
• Swallow-tailed Hummingbird
• Toco Toucan
• Tropical Kingbird 
• Tropical Screech Owl
• Turquoise-fronted Amazon
• Vermillion Flycatcher 
• Wattled Jacana 
• White-banded Mockingbird
• White-barred Piculet
• White-bearded Manakin
• White-bellied Warbler
• White-browed Meadowlark
• White-eared Puffbird
• White-fronted Woodpecker
• White-headed Marsh Tyrant
• White Monjita
• White-rimmed Warbler
• White-tailed Goldenthroat
• White-wedged Piculet
• White-winged Nightjar
• Yellow-billed Blue Finch
• Yellow-billed Cardinal
• Yellow-browed Tyrant
• Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
• Yellow-headed Caracara
• Yellow-olive Flatbill

Non-native Birds

• Correndera Pipit
• Diademed Tanager
• Great Grebe
• House Sparrow
• Lake Duck
• Orinoco Goose
• Red Phalarope
• Rock Pigeon
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Semipalmated Plover

Paraguay’s best places to go birdwatching include Laguna Blanca National Park, Mbaracayú Biosphere Reserve, and San Rafael Reserve. The peak birding season in Paraguay generally coincides with the austral spring and early summer, from September to December. Many bird species are in their breeding plumage during this time, and the weather is typically more favorable for birdwatching.