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20 Beautiful Bird Living In Amazon Rainforest With Picture
Thousands of species of birds and animals make the Amazon Rainforest their home, more than anywhere else on Earth. The Amazon Rainforest impact on Earth extends to the countries surrounding it or even covers more than the continent of South America.
This great forest acts as the lungs for the Earth and filters out carbon dioxide. Providing us with fresh and clean oxygen to breathe.
But this vast Amazon Rainforest is essential for more than just humans. This spectacular forest full of natural beauty serves as home to thousands of plant and animal species that help provide food, water, and a place to live.
With over 1,300 bird species ranging from the whimsical to the mesmerizing, this vast Amazon Rainforest is also a prime bird habitat with an incredible array of animals. But many of those birds and animals are threatened by hunting and habitat loss which is the main reason for their declining population.
But the good thing is that researchers are making more efforts than ever to save bird and animal communities in this area. Today I introduce you to the birds living in the largest forest in the world and start this article,
1. Horned Screamer
Horned Screamer |
These giant birds are about 3 feet long and look like game birds but these giant birds are actually related to ducks and geese. You will hear them before you see them as their name suggests. These birds have a loud and resonant call.
The horned screamer is believed to live in vegetated swamps where these birds are found feeding on water plants. These birds mostly appear black with white spots. The special thing about these birds is that the long, horn-like structure coming out of their crown is unique which is loosely attached to their skull and it constantly grows and breaks.
2. Puffbird
Puffbird |
Shy and secretive by nature, these magnificent birds are tropical tree-dwellers and insectivores, which can be seen from Mexico to South America. But due to their preference for forest habitats, the largest species of these birds can be seen in the Amazon Rainforest basin.
It may be that these birds lack the iridescent colours of their cousins the jacamars but the loose feathers, short tails and brightly coloured bills and eyes of puffbirds give them an attractive appearance.
These birds are rarely found making noise and prefer to sit still and quiet while waiting for insects to hunt. This is not to say that these birds do not make noise, you can hear these birds calling loudly and frequently during the morning and evening.
3. Black-Collared Hawk
Black-Collared Hawk |
The black-collared hawk is found in Central and South America as well as Trinidad and Tobago. This beautiful bird of prey prefers to make its habitat in subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and swamps. These predatory birds can be identified by their buff-colored white head and black stripes on the top.
Apart from this, these birds have a bright fibrous body with yellow on the chest and a black crescent present on the upper breast. These birds are barred with black stripes on the back and black tail feathers. You can see these predatory birds swooping down to eat fish, small lizards, insects and rodents. Read- Fossa Interesting Facts About Amazing Looking Animal
4. Gray-Headed Kite
Gray-Headed Kite |
This magnificent and beautiful bird species prefers to live in open forests and swamp-like forests from eastern Mexico and Trinidad to Peru, Bolivia and Argentina. The adult bird looks brown with a brown head and legs, blue beak, black upper body and white lower abdomen.
Apart from this, these birds have a black tail with two or three white stripes. These birds are mostly seen at high places while hunting reptiles, frogs and insects and these birds have an attractive and distinctive meow-like sound.
5. Capped Heron
Capped Heron |
These colorful birds make their home in many parts of Central America and South America. These birds mostly prefer to live around rivers, swamps and freshwater lakes.
Apart from this, this bird is very famous for the brilliant blue and pink colors on its beak, bright yellow feathers under the neck and abdomen and long, thin feathers coming out of the head, which makes it look like a distant cousin of the famous secretary of Africa.
6. Jabiru Stork
Jabiru Stork |
The Jabiru stork is the tallest flying bird in Central and South America and can be seen in the Americas from Mexico to Argentina, east of the Andes Mountains. Jabiru storks are mostly found in large groups near rivers and ponds.
Where these birds spend most of their time eating fish, mollusks and amphibians. These birds look attractive with a length of 4 to 5 feet, black head, white feathered body and a red neck pouch.
7. Dusky-Headed Parakeet
Dusky-Headed Parakeet |
The Dusky-headed parakeet, whose name is derived from the French word for parrot, perroquet, is mostly small in size and breeds in groups but the words parrot and parakeet are mostly used interchangeably.
The parrot species that live in the Amazon Rainforest include the dark-headed parrot with its brown face, the maroon-tailed parrot with its attractive red colour and the cobalt-winged parrot with its brilliant blue colour.
As far as the parrots that live in the Amazon Rainforest are concerned, they are black-headed, blue-headed, blue-winged, orange-cheeked, orange-winged, white-bellied and yellow-crowned.
8. King Vulture
King Vulture |
There are about 4 species of vultures living in the Peruvian Amazon but the king vulture deserves the crown of the most beautiful of them all. With a range covering most of Central and South America, these colorful vultures can be seen in the ancient hieroglyphic texts of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization.
These king vultures are large and predominantly white in color with tail feathers ranging from brown to black. The king vulture has an orange fleshy caruncle on its beak and a colorful bald head that can have blue, orange, purple, red and yellow colors.
9. Golden-Headed Manakin
Golden-Headed Manakin |
The golden-headed manakin is one of the approximately 60 species of manakin that live in the American tropics and is a colorful and adorable bird species. These birds are about 3.7 inches long and weigh less than 142 grams. The females and juveniles of these birds look similar to the female white-bearded manakin.
But the adult males appear black-bodied with golden cap, white and red thighs, pink feet and yellow beak. These Golden-headed manakins are mostly found in low-altitude forests and plantations. Their leaping, sliding mating ritual and resonating zit-zit call is a wonder.
10. Blue-Throated Piping Guan
Blue-Throated Piping Guan |
This turkey-like bird belonging to the Curassows can be seen living in the subtropical and tropical forests of northern South America. Apart from this, you can see two species of them in the Amazon Rainforest of Peru. Spix's Guan bird is named after the German naturalist Johann Baptist von Spix.
The Blue-throated piping guan has white spotted brown feathers and a bright red wattle. The Blue-throated Piping Guan bird looks black with a green sheen. It has white spots on its wings, white plumage on the chest, white crest and blue beak and throat. Read- Red-Crested Turaco Interesting Facts And Picture
11. Potoo
Potoo |
There are two species of potoo birds which are common potoo and great potoo which can be seen in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest. But if you want to spot these birds then you will need to be equipped with binoculars. This is because these owl-like birds are experts in camouflage. Their disproportionately large heads and speckled brown and gray feathers help these birds spend the day sitting on stumps or branches.
The eyes of the potoo are half closed which is almost unnoticeable to the eyes. Potoo birds use their huge eyes and huge mouths to forage for their food at night and are known to eat mostly flying insects.
12. Hummingbird
Hummingbird |
If you love these small and beautiful looking birds, the Peruvian Amazon jungle offers over a dozen dazzling species that are virtually guaranteed to delight. The jewel-like colors of these small beautiful hummingbirds encompass nearly every color of the rainbow.
13. Motmot
Motmot |
A passerine bird related to the kingfishers and bee-eaters, this is a Neotropical forest bird species. These Amazon birds are famous for their colourful plumage and long tails which they use to ward off predators and attract females.
Living in colonies of up to 40 pairs, these spectacular birds nest mostly in tunnels along riverbanks and love to eat everything from fruit and insects to frogs, lizards and other small prey.
14. Trogon
Trogon |
When it comes to the most colourful and beautiful birds of the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest, the trogon gives tough competition to the toucans and parrots. It is the beautiful blue-crowned trogon with a blue-black head and red breast and eye ring and a black and white barred tail.
The green-backed trogon is also found here which boasts a deep blue head, yellow-orange belly and a beautiful tail. But the most favourite is the pavonine quetzal which is also known as the peacock trogon or the red-billed train bearer.
15. Parrot
Parrot |
This green, blue and brown neotropical parrot, mostly seen in the vast and beautiful Amazon Rainforest and domestic bird cages, is also known as the Weddell’s conure or the dusky-headed conure.
This parrot prefers semi-open forest habitats in the western Amazon Rainforest but is also found living in colonies in coffee plantations and around the Lima coast. Social, energetic and entertaining, it can be seen in pairs or small groups and prefers to feed on fruits, seeds, flowers and insects.
16. Toucans
Toucans |
This family of about 40 different species, from the 11.5-inch-long Lesser Aracari to the 29-inch Toco Toucan, lives throughout Central and South America and is one of the most popular sights in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest.
Perhaps best known for their shiny bodies and huge colorful beaks, you are almost certain to see these birds either nesting in hollows or eating fruit in the trees of the Amazon.
17. Harpy Eagle
Harpy Eagle |
The Harpy eagle, also known as the American Harpy Eagle to distinguish it from a similar species found in Papua New Guinea, is considered the largest and most powerful raptor in the Amazon Rainforest.
The females are larger than the males, growing up to 40 inches in length and have a wingspan of 6 to 7 feet. The eagle has a light brown, double-crested head. Apart from this, the eagle has a broad black breast, white belly and a black tail with three gray bands on top and three white bands at the bottom.
18. Tyrant Flycatcher
Tyrant Flycatcher |
This beautiful and charming bird can be seen living in the tropical forests of Central America and the northern part of South America. These birds are small in size and it is very difficult to see them in the forest because these birds like to search for food in the dark part of the forest.
But these are beautiful looking birds and they are named because of their feather crest which is mostly displayed only when they are attracting their female or trying to make themselves look bigger due to any threat.
19. Macaw
Macaw |
From the blue and yellow and scarlet macaws to the green-winged parrots, the chestnut-fronted macaw, these New World parrots are easily some of the most colorful birds you will see in the Peruvian Amazon Rainforest.
You will mostly hear these birds calling loudly before you see them and may even see them flying in mating pairs. You may also see these birds foraging in groups on trees, eating seeds, nuts, fruits, leaves, flowers, and stems.
20. Hoatzin
Hoatzin |
Also known as the Hoatzin pheasant, the Hoatzin bird is genetically mysterious. There has been intense scientific debate about its evolutionary relationships with other species. The strange looking bird, about the size of a pheasant, is also called the stinkbird because of the manure-like odor caused by its unique digestive system.
The sounds of these birds are equally strange, which include groans, screeches, hisses and grunts, and are mostly associated with its body movements.
Names Of Birds Living In Amazon Rainforest
1 - Wattled Jacana
2 - Large-billed Tern
3 - Black Skimmer
4 - Ruddy Pigeon
5 - Red-bellied Macaw
6 - Scarlet Parrot
7 - Dusky-headed Parrot
8 - Tui Parrot
9 - Blue-winged Parrot
10 - Blue-headed Parrot
11 - Mealy Parrot
12 - Javirú
13 - Muscovy Duck
14 - Anhinga
15 - Capped Heron
16 - Striated Egret
17 - Black-crowned Night Heron Snowy Egret
18 - Cattle Egret
19 - White-eared Jacamar
20 - Black-fronted Ninebird
21 - Lettered Aracari
22 - Cuvier's Toucan
23 - Spotted Woodpecker
24 - Yellow-throated Woodpecker
25 - Crimson Crested Woodpecker
26 - Long-billed Woodcreeper
27 - White-headed Swamp-tyrant
28 - Greater Kiskadee
29 -Fork-tailed Flycatcher
30 - Black-tailed Tithra
31 - Yellow-hooded Blackbird
32 - Palm Tanager
33 - Crested Oropendola
34 - Oriole Blackbird
35 - Velvet-fronted Grackle
36 - Woodstork
37 - Neotropic Cormorant
38 - Rufescent Tiger Heron
39 - Boat-billed Heron
40 - White-winged Swallow
41 - Southern Rough-winged Swallow
42 - Black-capped Donacobius
43 - Lined Seed-eater
44 - Brown Saltador
45 - Silver-billed Tanager
46 - Blue-grey Tanager
47 - Bananaquit
48 - Green Ibis
49 - Little Yellow-headed Vulture Black Vulture
50 - Brown-headed Kite
51 - Plumbeous Kite
52 - Slate-coloured hawk
53 - Black-collared hawk
54 - Black caracara
55 - Red-throated cara cara sunbittern
56 - Maroon-tailed parrot
57 - Smooth-billed ani
58 - Hoatzin
59 - Common potoo
60 - Common pauraque
61 - Fork-tailed palm swift
62 - Black-throated mongoose
63 - White-tailed trogon
64 - Ringed kingfisher
65 - Green kingfisherGreen and rufous kingfisher
66 - Blue-fronted jacamar
67 - Scarlet-crowned barbet
68 - Chesnut-eared aracari
69 - Yellow-tufted woodpecker
70 - Chestnut woodpecker
71 - Cream-coloured woodpecker
72 - Lined woodpecker
73 - Red and white spinetail
74 - Lesser kiskadee
75 - Tropical Kingbird
76 - Eastern Kingbird
77 - Bare-necked Fruitcrow
78 - Brown-chested Martin
79 - Barn Swallow
80 - Chestnut-bellied Seedeater
81 - Red-capped Cardinal
82 - Plum-throated Cotinga
83 - Masked Crimson Tanager
84 - Paradise Tanager
85 - Troupial
86 - Snail Kite
87 - Great Black Hawk
88 - Osprey
89 - Roadside Hawk
90 - Yellow-headed Cara Cara
91 - Laughing Hawk
92 - Gray-necked Woodrail
93 - Spotted Sandpiper
94 - Yellow-billed Tern
95 - Plumbeous Pigeon
96 - Blue-and-yellow Macaw
97 - Chestnut-fronted Macaw
98 - White-eyed Parrotlet
99 - Cobalt-winged Parrotlet
100 - Canary-winged Parrotlet
101 - Short-tailed Parrotlet
102 - Orange-winged Parrotlet
103 - Festive Parrotlet
104 - Squirrel Cuckoo
105 - Greater Ani
106 - Great Potoo
107 - Sand-coloured Nighthawk
108 - Short-tailed Swift
109 - Little Swallow-tailed Swift
110 - Fork-tailed Woodnymph
111 - Black-tailed Trogon
112 - Amazon Kingfisher
113 - Pygmy Kingfisher
114 - Russet-backed Oropendola
115 - Yellow-tailed Cacique
116 - Agami Heron
117 - Great Egret
118 - Cocoi Heron
119 - Horned Screech Cat
120 - Turkey Vulture
121 - Great Yellow-headed Vulture
122 - Swallow-tailed Kite