Birds of Colombia

List of Common Birds Found in Colombia

Native Birds

• Acadian Flycatcher
• Alder Flycatcher
• Amazon Kingfisher
• American Flamingo
• Andean Cock-of-the-Rock
• Andean Condor
• Andean Guan
• Andean Motmot
• Andean Partridge
• Anhinga
• Aplomado Falcon
• Band-tailed Guan
• Band-tailed Pigeon
• Bare-faced Ibis
• Barred Forest-falcon
• Bat Falcon
• Belted Kingfisher
• Beryl-spangled Tanager
• Black-bellied Whistling-duck
• Black-billed Mountain Toucan
• Black-chested Jay
• Black-fronted Nunbird
• Black-fronted Piping-guan
• Black Guan
• Black-headed Tody-flycatcher
• Black Inca
• Black Phoebe
• Black Tinamou
• Blue-billed Curassow
• Blue-crowned Motmot
• Blue-throated Piping-guan
• Blue-winged Teal
• Boat-billed Flycatcher
• Boat-billed Heron
• Bran-colored Flycatcher
• Broad-winged Hawk
• Cattle Tyrant
• Chestnut-bellied Flowerpiercer
• Chestnut-capped Piha
• Chestnut-eared Aracari
• Cocoi Heron
• Collared Aracari
• Collared Forest-falcon
• Colombian Chachalaca
• Colombian Grebe
• Common Ground-dove
• Common Tody-flycatcher
• Crane Hawk
• Crested Bobwhite
• Crested Caracara
• Crested Guan
• Crested Owl
• Crimson-mantled Woodpecker
• Double-toothed Kite
• Dusky-capped Flycatcher
• Eared Dove
• Eastern Kingbird
• Eastern Wood-pewee
• Fawn-breasted Tanager
• Flame-faced Tanager
• Flame-rumped Tanager
• Fork-tailed Flycatcher
• Glossy Ibis
• Golden-bellied Starfrontlet
• Golden-crowned Spadebill
• Golden-eared Tanager
• Golden-plumed Parakeet
• Golden Tanager
• Grass-green Tanager
• Gray-cheeked Nunlet
• Gray Flycatcher
• Gray Hawk
• Gray-headed Chachalaca
• Gray-headed Dove
• Gray Kingbird
• Great Egret
• Greater Pewee
• Great Kiskadee
• Green Heron
• Green Kingfisher
• Guira Tanager
• Hammond’s Flycatcher
• Harpy Eagle
• Keel-billed Toucan
• King Vulture
• Lachrymose Mountain-tanager
• Lanceolated Monklet
• Laughing Falcon
• Least Flycatcher
• Least Grebe
• Lemon-throated Barbet
• Lesser Kiskadee
• Lettered Aracari
• Limpkin
• Lined Quail-dove
• Little Blue Heron
• Little Tinamou
• Long-tailed Tyrant
• Marail Guan
• Metallic-green Tanager
• Multicolored Tanager
• Neotropic Cormorant
• Northern Shoveler
• Olive-sided Flycatcher
• Ornate Hawk-eagle
• Pacific Flatbill
• Pale-bellied Tapaculo
• Pale-browed Tinamou
• Pale-edged Flycatcher
• Pied-billed Grebe
• Pied Puffbird
• Plain-breasted Ground-dove
• Plate-billed Mountain-toucan
• Plumbeous Kite
• Ringed Kingfisher
• Roadside Hawk
• Ruddy Ground-dove
• Ruddy Quail-dove
• Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
• Rufous-throated Tanager
• Rufous-vented Chachalaca
• Rufous-winged Tanager
• Saffron-crowned Tanager
• Santa Marta Antpitta
• Santa Marta Parakeet
• Santa Marta Sabrewing
• Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird
• Scale-crested Pygmy-tyrant
• Scaly-naped Pigeon
• Scarlet-bellied Mountain-tanager
• Scarlet-browed Tanager
• Scissor-tailed Flycatcher
• Short-tailed Hawk
• Sickle-winged Guan
• Silver-beaked Tanager
• Small-billed Elaenia
• Snail Kite
• Social Flycatcher
• Spix’s Guan
• Spotted Tanager
• Streaked Flycatcher
• Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
• Sunbittern
• Swainson’s Hawk
• Swallow-tailed Kite
• Swallow Tanager
• Swallow-winged Puffbird
• Tawny-faced Gnatwren
• Toucan Barbet
• Tricolored Heron
• Trilling Gnatwren
• Tropical Kingbird
• Tropical Pewee
• Turquoise Dacnis
• Vermilion Cardinal
• Vermilion Flycatcher
• Wattled Guan
• Western Wood-pewee
• White Hawk
• White Ibis
• White-mantled Barbet
• White-throated Toucan
• White-tipped Dove
• White-tipped Quetzal
• White-whiskered Spinetail
• Yellow-eared Parrot
• Yellow-headed Brushfinch
• Yellow-olive Flatbill
• Yellow-olive Flycatcher
• Yellow-throated Toucan
• Zone-tailed Hawk
• Acorn Woodpecker
• Amazonian Antshrike
• Amazonian Barred-woodcreeper
• Amazonian Streaked-antwren
• Andean Pygmy-owl
• Andean Tit-spinetail
• Ash-breasted Antbird
• Ash-browed Spinetail
• Ash-winged Antwren
• Band-bellied Owl
• Banded Antbird
• Bar-bellied Woodcreeper
• Bar-bellied Woodpecker
• Bar-breasted Piculet
• Bar-crested Antshrike
• Bare-crowned Antbird
• Bare-shanked Screech-owl
• Barred Antshrike
• Barred Hawk
• Barred Parakeet
• Beautiful Woodpecker
• Bicolored Antbird
• Bicolored Antpitta
• Bicolored Antvireo
• Bicolored Hawk
• Black-and-chestnut Eagle
• Black-and-white Antbird
• Black-and-white Hawk-eagle
• Black-and-white Owl
• Black Antbird
• Black Antshrike
• Black-backed Antshrike
• Black-backed Thornbill
• Black-banded Owl
• Black-banded Woodcreeper
• Black-billed Treehunter
• Black Bushbird
• Black-cheeked Woodpecker
• Black-chested Buzzard-eagle
• Black-collared Hawk
• Black-crested Antshrike
• Black-crowned Antshrike
• Black-faced Antbird
• Black-faced Hawk
• Black Hawk-eagle
• Black-headed Antbird
• Black-headed Parrot
• Blackish Antbird
• Blackish-gray Antshrike
• Black-spotted Bare-eye
• Black-striped Woodcreeper
• Black-tailed Leaftosser
• Black-throated Antbird
• Blue-and-yellow Macaw
• Blue-bearded Helmetcrest
• Blue-crowned Parakeet
• Blue-fronted Parrotlet
• Blue-headed Parrot
• Blue-lored Antbird
• Bogota Sunangel
• Bronze-winged Parrot
• Brown-banded Antpitta
• Brown-billed Scythebill
• Brown-breasted Parakeet
• Brown-hooded Parrot
• Brown-rumped Foliage-gleaner
• Brown-throated Parakeet
• Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner
• Buff-fronted Owl
• Buff-throated Foliage-gleaner
• Buff-throated Woodcreeper
• Buffy Helmetcrest
• Burrowing Owl
• Canary-winged Parakeet
• Castelnau’s Antshrike
• Cauca Guan
• Central American Pygmy-owl
• Chami Antpitta
• Channel-billed Toucan
• Checker-throated Stipplethroat
• Cherrie’s Antwren
• Chestnut-backed Antbird
• Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird
• Chestnut-crested Antbird
• Chestnut-crowned Antpitta
• Chestnut-crowned Foliage-gleaner
• Chestnut-fronted Macaw
• Chestnut-naped Antpitta
• Chestnut Piculet
• Chestnut-tailed Antbird
• Chestnut-tipped Toucanet
• Chestnut-winged Chachalaca
• Chestnut-winged Cinclodes
• Chestnut-winged Foliage-gleaner
• Chestnut-winged Hookbill
• Chestnut Wood-quail
• Chiribiquete Emerald
• Choco Screech-owl
• Choco Toucan
• Choco Woodpecker
• Cinereous Antshrike
• Cinereous Harrier
• Cinnamon-rumped Foliage-gleaner
• Cinnamon Screech-owl
• Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper
• Cinnamon Woodpecker
• Cloud-forest Pygmy-owl
• Cobalt-winged Parakeet
• Cocha Antshrike
• Cocoa Woodcreeper
• Colorful Puffleg
• Common Black Hawk
• Common Scale-backed Antbird
• Cooper’s Hawk
• Cream-colored Woodpecker
• Crescent-faced Antpitta
• Crested Eagle
• Crested Spinetail
• Crimson-bellied Woodpecker
• Crimson-crested Woodpecker
• Crimson-mantled Woodpecker
• Crimson-rumped Toucanet
• Cundinamarca Antpitta
• Curve-billed Scythebill
• Dot-backed Antbird
• Dot-winged Antwren
• Double-banded Graytail
• Dugand’s Antwren
• Dusky Antbird
• Dusky-billed Parrotlet
• Dusky-cheeked Foliage-gleaner
• Dusky-headed Parakeet
• Dusky Parrot
• Dusky Starfrontlet
• Dusky-throated Antshrike
• East Andean Antbird
• Elegant Woodcreeper
• Equatorial Antpitta
• Esmeraldas Antbird
• Fasciated Antshrike
• Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
• Festive Parrot
• Flammulated Treehunter
• Foothill Screech-owl
• Foothill Stipplethroat
• Fulvous Antshrike
• Fulvous-dotted Treerunner
• Giant Antpitta
• Golden-collared Toucanet
• Golden-green Woodpecker
• Golden-olive Woodpecker
• Golden-spangled Piculet
• Gorgeted Puffleg
• Gorgeted Wood-quail
• Gray Antbird
• Gray Antwren
• Gray-bellied Antbird
• Gray-bellied Hawk
• Gray-breasted Mountain-toucan
• Gray-headed Kite
• Grayish Piculet
• Gray-lined Hawk
• Gray-throated Leaftosser
• Great Antshrike
• Great Black Hawk
• Greater Scythebill
• Great Green Macaw
• Great Horned Owl
• Green-bearded Helmetcrest
• Green-rumped Parrotlet
• Groove-billed Toucanet
• Guayaquil Woodpecker
• Guianan Streaked-antwren
• Hairy-crested Antbird
• Harris’s Hawk
• Hooded Antpitta
• Hook-billed Kite
• Imeri Warbling-antbird
• Indigo-capped Hummingbird
• Indigo-winged Parrot
• Ivory-billed Aracari
• Jet Antbird
• Klages’s Antbird
• Lafresnaye’s Piculet
• Leaden Antwren
• Lesser Hornero
• Lilac-tailed Parrotlet
• Lineated Foliage-gleaner
• Lineated Woodpecker
• Lined Antshrike
• Lita Woodpecker
• Little Woodpecker
• Long-billed Woodcreeper
• Long-tailed Woodcreeper
• Long-winged Antwren
• Long-winged Harrier
• Magdalena Antbird
• Many-banded Aracari
• Many-striped Canastero
• Maroon-tailed Parakeet
• Mealy Parrot
• Military Macaw
• Mississippi Kite
• Montane Foliage-gleaner
• Montane Woodcreeper
• Mottled Owl
• Mouse-colored Antshrike
• Moustached Antpitta
• Moustached Antwren
• Muisca Antpitta
• Northern Barred-woodcreeper
• Northern Harrier
• Northern Slaty-antshrike
• Ocellated Antbird
• Ocellated Woodcreeper
• Ochre-breasted Antpitta
• Ochre-striped Antpitta
• Olivaceous Piculet
• Olivaceous Woodcreeper
• Olive-backed Foliage-gleaner
• Olive-backed Woodcreeper
• Orange-cheeked Parrot
• Orange-chinned Parakeet
• Orange-fronted Plushcrown
• Orange-winged Parrot
• Orinoco Piculet
• Orinoco Softtail
• Ornate Stipplethroat
• Pacific Antwren
• Pacific Parrotlet
• Pacific Tuftedcheek
• Painted Parakeet
• Pale-billed Hornero
• Pale-legged Hornero
• Parker’s Antbird
• Pearled Treerunner
• Pearl Kite
• Pearly Antshrike
• Perija Antpitta
• Perija Thistletail
• Peruvian Warbling-antbird
• Plain Antvireo
• Plain-backed Antpitta
• Plain-breasted Piculet
• Plain-brown Woodcreeper
• Plain-throated Antwren
• Plain-winged Antshrike
• Plain-winged Antwren
• Plain Xenops
• Plumbeous Antbird
• Plumbeous Hawk
• Point-tailed Palmcreeper
• Powerful Woodpecker
• Pygmy Antwren
• Recurve-billed Bushbird
• Red-and-green Macaw
• Red-and-white Spinetail
• Red-bellied Macaw
• Red-billed Parrot
• Red-billed Scythebill
• Red-crowned Woodpecker
• Reddish-winged Bare-eye
• Red-faced Spinetail
• Red-fan Parrot
• Red-lored Parrot
• Red-necked Woodpecker
• Red-rumped Woodpecker
• Red-stained Woodpecker
• Ringed Woodpecker
• Rio Suno Antwren
• Riparian Antbird
• Riparian Parrotlet
• Rose-faced Parrot
• Ruddy Foliage-gleaner
• Ruddy Woodcreeper
• Rufescent Antshrike
• Rufescent Screech-owl
• Rufous-backed Stipplethroat
• Rufous-banded Owl
• Rufous-breasted Piculet
• Rufous-fronted Parakeet
• Rufous-fronted Thornbird
• Rufous-headed Woodpecker
• Rufous-rumped Antwren
• Rufous-rumped Foliage-gleaner
• Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner
• Rufous-tailed Stipplethroat
• Rufous-tailed Xenops
• Russet Antshrike
• Rusty-backed Spinetail
• Rusty-breasted Antpitta
• Rusty-faced Parrot
• Rusty-winged Barbtail
• Saffron-headed Parrot
• Santa Marta Antbird
• Santa Marta Blossomcrown
• Santa Marta Foliage-gleaner
• Santa Marta Screech-owl
• Santa Marta Woodstar
• Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet
• Savanna Hawk
• Scale-breasted Woodpecker
• Scaled Antpitta
• Scaled Piculet
• Scaly-naped Parrot
• Scaly-throated Foliage-gleaner
• Scaly-throated Leaftosser
• Scarlet-backed Woodpecker
• Scarlet-fronted Parakeet
• Scarlet Macaw
• Scarlet-shouldered Parrotlet
• Semicollared Hawk
• Semiplumbeous Hawk
• Sharp-shinned Hawk
• Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper
• Short-billed Leaftosser
• Short-eared Owl
• Short-tailed Parrot
• Sierra Nevada Antpitta
• Silvered Antbird
• Sinu Parakeet
• Slate-colored Antbird
• Slate-colored Hawk
• Slate-crowned Antpitta
• Slaty Antwren
• Slaty-winged Foliage-gleaner
• Slender-billed Kite
• Slender-billed Xenops
• Smoky-brown Woodpecker
• Solitary Eagle
• Sooty Antbird
• Sooty-capped Puffbird
• South American Leaftosser
• Southern Emerald-toucanet
• Speckled Spinetail
• Speckle-faced Parrot
• Spectacled Owl
• Spectacled Parrotlet
• Spectacled Prickletail
• Spiny-faced Antshrike
• Spot-backed Antbird
• Spot-backed Antwren
• Spot-breasted Woodpecker
• Spot-crowned Antvireo
• Spotted Antbird
• Spotted Antpitta
• Spotted Barbtail
• Spotted Woodcreeper
• Spot-throated Woodcreeper
• Spot-winged Antbird
• Spot-winged Antshrike
• Spot-winged Parrotlet
• Stout-billed Cinclodes
• Straight-billed Woodcreeper
• Streak-backed Canastero
• Streak-capped Spinetail
• Streak-capped Treehunter
• Streak-chested Antpitta
• Streaked Tuftedcheek
• Streaked Xenops
• Streak-headed Antbird
• Streak-headed Woodcreeper
• Striated Antbird
• Stripe-chested Antwren
• Striped Owl
• Striped Treehunter
• Striped Woodcreeper
• Striped Woodhaunter
• Strong-billed Woodcreeper
• Stub-tailed Antbird
• Stygian Owl
• Subtropical Pygmy-owl
• Tawny Antpitta
• Tawny-bellied Screech-owl
• Tawny-tufted Toucanet
• Thicket Antpitta
• Thrush-like Antpitta
• Tiny Hawk
• Tolima Blossomcrown
• Tolima Dove
• Tropical Screech-owl
• Tui Parakeet
• Turquoise-winged Parrotlet
• Tyrannine Woodcreeper
• Undulated Antpitta
• Uniform Antshrike
• Uniform Treehunter
• Urrao Antpitta
• Variable Hawk
• Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
• Western Fire-eye
• White-bellied Antbird
• White-bellied Antpitta
• White-bellied Parrot
• White-browed Antbird
• White-browed Spinetail
• White-cheeked Antbird
• White-chinned Thistletail
• White-chinned Woodcreeper
• White-eyed Parakeet
• White-flanked Antwren
• White-fringed Antwren
• White-lored Antpitta
• White-plumed Antbird
• White-rumped Hawk
• White-shouldered Antbird
• White-shouldered Antshrike
• White-streaked Antvireo
• White-tailed Hawk
• White-tailed Kite
• White-tailed Starfrontlet
• White-throated Hawk
• White-throated Screech-owl
• White-throated Woodpecker
• Wing-banded Antbird
• Yapacana Antbird
• Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
• Yellow-breasted Antpitta
• Yellow-breasted Antwren
• Yellow-browed Antbird
• Yellow-chinned Spinetail
• Yellow-crowned Parrot
• Yellow-eared Toucanet
• Yellow-throated Antwren
• Yellow-throated Woodpecker
• Yellow-tufted Woodpecker
• Yellow-vented Woodpecker
• Zeledon’s Antbird
• Zimmer’s Woodcreeper

Non-native Birds

• American Avocet
• Black Rail
• Chimney Swift
• Mangrove Cuckoo
• Mourning Dove
• Ring-necked Duck
• Rock Pigeon

Colombia is one of the best countries to go birdwatching. Some notable places include the Santa Marta Mountains, the Amazon Rainforest, and the Andes. A unique way to experience the avian variety the nation offers is through the Colombia Birdfair in February and the Festival of the Birds in Cali in October.