Fauna of Colombia - Birds

Birds

Over 1800 species of birds have been described in Colombia, (more than the number of existent bird species in North America and Europe, combined). Some of the bird species in Colombia are:

• American Redstart
• Groove-billed Ani
• Spotted Antbird
• White-plumed Antbird
• Antioquia Bristle-tyrant
• Northern Slaty-Antshrike
• Blackish-grey Antshrike
• Black-faced Antthrush
• White-flanked Antwren
• Checker-throated Antwren
• Apical Flycatcher
• Apolinar's Wren
• Argus Bare-eye
• Cinnamon Attila
• Band-tailed Barbthroat
• Pale-tailed Barbthroat
• Baudó Oropendola
• Beautiful Woodpecker
• Bearded Bellbird
• Black-and-gold Tanager
• Black-chested Buzzard-eagle
• Black-mandibled Toucan
• Blackish Tapaculo
• Bogotá Rail
• Empress Brilliant
• Fawn-breasted Brilliant
• Brown-banded Antpitta
• Buff-breasted Mountain-tanager
• Red-rumped Cacique
• Scarlet-rumped Cacique
• Red-capped Cardinal
• Gray Catbird
• Little Chachalaca
• Rufous-vented Chachalaca
• Chestnut-bellied Flower-piercer
• Chestnut-capped Piha
• Chestnut-mandibled Toucan
• Choco Toucan
• Chocó Vireo
• Clapper Rail
• Andean Cock-of-the-rock
• Guianan Cock-of-the-rock
• Collared Trogon
• Festive Coquette
• Spangled Coquette
• Buff-tailed Coronet
• Velvet-purple Coronet
• Pompadour Cotinga
• Bronzed Cowbird
• Crested Ant-tanager
• Cundinamarca Antpitta
• Great Curassow
• Dickcissel
• Black-capped Donacobius
• Common Ground Dove
• Grey-fronted Dove
• Mourning Dove
• White-tipped Dove
• Dusky-headed Brush-finch
• American Harpy Eagle
• Crested Eagle
• Forest Elaenia
• Yellow-crowned Elaenia
• Andean Emerald
• Blue-tailed Emerald
• Glittering-throated Emerald
• Versicoloured Emerald
• Euler's Flycatcher
• Orange-bellied Euphonia
• Purple-crowned Fairy
• Laughing Falcon
• Flame-winged Parakeet
• Acadian Flycatcher
• Fuscous Flycatcher
• Great Crested Flycatcher
• Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher
• Sulphur-bellied Flycatcher
• Orange-breasted Fruiteater
• Black-faced Hawk
• Common Black Hawk
• Bronzy Hermit
• Great-billed Hermit
• Green Hermit
• Grey-chinned Hermit
• Long-billed Hermit
• Reddish Hermit
• Rufous-breasted Hermit
• Sooty-capped Hermit
• Stripe-throated Hermit
• Tawny-bellied Hermit
• White-whiskered Hermit
• Zigzag Heron
• Purple Honeycreeper
• Giant Hummingbird
• Green-bellied Hummingbird
• Indigo-capped Hummingbird
• Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
• Rufous-tailed Hummingbird
• Snowy-breasted Hummingbird
• Speckled Hummingbird
• Steely-vented Hummingbird
• Violet-bellied Hummingbird
• Buff-necked Ibis
• Brown Inca
• Collared Inca
• Bronzy Jacamar
• Green-tailed Jacamar
• Pale-headed Jacamar
• Paradise Jacamar
• Rufous-tailed Jacamar
• Yellow-billed Jacamar
• White-necked Jacobin
• Green Jay
• American Pygmy Kingfisher
• Great Kiskadee
• Long-wattled Umbrellabird
• Blue-backed Manakin
• Lance-tailed Manakin
• Wire-tailed Manakin
• Green-breasted Mango
• Tyrian Metaltail
• Tropical Mockingbird
• Blue-crowned Motmot
• Rufous Motmot
• Mountain Grackle
• Moustached Brush-finch
• Multicoloured Tanager
• Niceforo's Wren
• Lesser Nighthawk
• Northern Helmeted Curassow
• Brown Nunlet
• Rusty-breasted Nunlet
• Oilbird
• Baltimore Oriole
• Orchard Oriole
• South American Yellow Oriole
• Pale-legged Warbler
• Parker's Antbird
• Mealy Amazon
• Yellow-eared Parrot
• Green-rumped Parrotlet
• Western Wood Pewee
• Black Phoebe
• Band-tailed Pigeon
• Ruddy Pigeon
• Short-billed Pigeon
• Collared Puffbird
• Russet-throated Puffbird
• White-necked Puffbird
• Puffleg
• Colorful Puffleg
• Gorgeted Puffleg
• Golden-headed Quetzal
• White-tipped Quetzal
• Booted Racket-tail
• Red-bellied Grackle
• Royal Flycatcher
• Rufous-breasted Wren
• Rufous-fronted Parakeet
• Rufous-tailed Antthrush
• Rusty-headed Spinetail
• Santa Marta Antpitta
• Santa Marta Brush-finch
• Santa Marta Bush-tyrant
• Santa Marta Mountain-tanager
• Santa Marta Parakeet
• Santa Marta Tapaculo
• Santa Marta Warbler
• Santa Marta Wren
• Blue-chinned Sapphire
• Scarlet Macaw
• Black-necked Screamer
• Horned Screamer
• Variable Seedeater
• Buff-tailed Sicklebill
• White-tipped Sicklebill
• Silvery-throated Spinetail
• Red Siskin
• Yellow-bellied Siskin
• Sooty Ant-tanager
• Sooty-capped Puffbird
• Orange-billed Sparrow
• Blue-tufted Starthroat
• Long-billed Starthroat
• Black Storm-petrel
• Least Storm-petrel
• Streak-capped Spinetail
• Gorgeted Sunangel
• Orange-throated Sunangel
• Tree Swallow
• Swallow-wing
• Short-tailed Swift
• Sick's Swift
• Violet-tailed Sylph
• Blue-gray Tanager
• Fulvous-crested Tanager
• Olive Tanager
• Paradise Tanager
• Scarlet Tanager
• Turquoise Tanager
• White-shouldered Tanager
• Green Thorntail
• Wire-crested Thorntail
• Spectacled Thrush
• Wood Thrush
• Barred Tinamou
• Berlepsch's Tinamou
• Black Tinamou
• Brown Tinamou
• Choco Tinamou
• Cinereous Tinamou
• Colombian Tinamou
• Great Tinamou
• Grey Tinamou
• Grey-legged Tinamou
• Highland Tinamou
• Little Tinamou
• Magdalena Tinamou
• Red-legged Tinamou
• Rusty Tinamou
• Tawny-breasted Tinamou
• Undulated Tinamou
• Variegated Tinamou
• White-throated Tinamou
• Tolima Dove
• Channel-billed Toucan
• Keel-billed Toucan
• White-throated Toucan
• Emerald Toucanet
• Groove-billed Toucanet
• Slaty-tailed Trogon
• Grey-winged Trumpeter
• Buffy Tuftedcheek
• Streaked Tuftedcheek
• Turquoise Dacnis
• Turquoise-throated Puffleg
• Southern Beardless Tyrannulet
• Upper Magdalena Tapaculo
• Velvet-fronted Euphonia
• Violaceous Trogon
• Brown Violet-ear
• Green Violet-ear
• Sparkling Violet-ear
• Black-and-white Warbler
• Black-throated Green Warbler
• Blackpoll Warbler
• Palm Warbler
• Prairie Warbler
• Townsend's Warbler
• Yellow Warbler
• Waved Albatross
• Cedar Waxwing
• White-crowned Pigeon
• White-lored Warbler
• White-mantled Barbet
• Purple-bibbed Whitetip
• Amazonian Barred-woodcreeper
• Black-banded Woodcreeper
• Straight-billed Woodcreeper
• Violet-crowned Woodnymph
• Acorn Woodpecker
• Ringed Woodpecker
• Yellow-throated Woodpecker
• Purple-throated Woodstar
• Band-backed Wren
• Stripe-backed Wren
• Yariguies Brush-finch
• Yellow-crowned Redstart
• Yellow-headed Brush-finch
• Yellow-rumped Warbler