ANNOTATED BIRD LIST – Amazonas, Brazil March 4 – 14, 2025
Callyn Yorke
KEY TO ANNOTATIONS
Locations: IBH = Ibis Manaus Airport Hotel and vicinity; MM = Refugio Mari-Mari and vicinity; MUS = Manaus Museum of Natural History;
Bird Behavior: greg. = gregarious; msf = mixed species flock; agl = estimated height above ground level (m); voc. = vocalizations, i.e. calls and/or song; HO = heard only.
Numerical abundance and distribution: Highest number of individuals found at first listed location, when a species was observed at multiple locations. Actual counts when less than 20 individuals; estimates when more than 20, e.g. counted in tens; ubiq. = ubiquitous in appropriate habitat(s).
SYSTEMATICS and TAXONOMY is an amalgam of the most recent (2025) online lists by AVIBASE, International Ornithological Congress (IOC) and American Ornithologists Society (AOS).
Birds
TINAMIFORMES: Tinamidae
- Great Tinamou Tinamus major 1 (HO) voc. calling repeatedly at dawn, MUS
GALLIFORMES: Cracidae
- Variable Chachalaca Ortalis motmot 2 voc. greg. a pair in mid-level trees at forest edge, MM
COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae
- Feral Rock Pigeon Columba livia 10 greg. in front of main entrance, MUS
- Ruddy Ground Dove Columbina talpacoti 1 voc. (unseen) roadway, MM
CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Caprimulgidae
- Common Paraque Nyctidromus albicollis 3 resting in leaf litter at edge of yard; flushed to short flights and returning to same area, MM.
CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Apodidae
- Fork-tailed Palm Swift Tachornis squamata 8 loosely greg. circling open areas, 20-50m agl, MM; IBH
- Band-rumped Swift Chaetura spinnicaudus 4 loosely greg. circling open and forested areas, 20 -80 m agl. MM
CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Trochilidae
- Reddish Hermit Phaethornis ruber 1 (Berg) forest trail understory, MM
- White-necked jacobin Florisuga mellivora 2 (m,f) forest edge and garden, MM
- Fork-tailed Woodnymph Thalurania furcata 2 (m,f) forest edge and adjacent garden trees, MM
- Gray-breasted Sabrewing Campylopterus largipennis 1 (m) forest edge and adjacent garden trees, MM
- Emerald Amazilla sp. 1 garden trees and forest edge, MM
CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae
Smooth-billed Ani Crotophaga ani 1 flew low across open area and into dense scrub at edge of yard, MM
ACCIPITRIFORMES: Cathartidae
- Greater Yellow-headed Vulture Cathartes melambrotus 4 loosely greg. 20-60m agl, ubiq. (photo).
- Black Vulture Coragyps atratus 10 greg. circling 30 -100m agl, ubiq.
ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae
- Roadside Hawk Rupornis magnirostris 1 perched in trees at edges of clearings, IBH, MM
- Short-tailed Hawk Buteo brachyurus 1 soaring 30-40m agl over entrance, MUS
TROGONIFORMES: Trogonidae
- Green-backed Trogon Trogon viridis 1 in forest canopy of tall fruiting tree, MM
PICIFORMES: Galbulidae
- Bronzy Jacamar Galbula leucogastra 2 sallying from fruit trees and utility wire; aerial hawking large insects, MM (photo).
PICIFORMES: Bucconidae
Black Nunbird Monasa atra 2 greg. a pair hawking insects on ground and from side of building under floodlights, MM
PICIFORMES: Picidae
- Yellow-tufted Woodpecker Melanerpes cruentatus 1 (f) alighted and moved up a garden fruit tree trunk to smaller limbs, MM.
PICIFORMES: Ramphastidae
- White-throated Toucan Ramphastos tucanus 4 voc. greg. in canopy of forest fruiting trees, MM, MUS (photo).
- Channel-billed Toucan Ramphastos vitellinus 2 greg. pairs in canopy of fruiting trees, MM, (photo).
- Green Aracari Pteroglossus viridis 2 greg. a pair in a fruiting cercropia tree, MM
- Black-necked Aracari Pteroglossus aracari 2 individuals and pairs in cercropia trees, M (photo).
PSITTACIFORMES: Psittacidae
- Mealy Parrot Amazona farinosa 2 greg. a pair in flight over the entrance, MUS
- Red-lored Amazon Amazona autumnalis 2 vocal, greg. pairs in dawn flight and in forest fruiting trees, MM; MUS
- Scarlet Macaw Ara macao 2 greg., a pair photographed in flight over forest canopy edge near the visitor center, MUS
- Red-and-Green Macaw Ara chloropterus 2 greg. a pair in flight and alighting in the forest canopy, MM
- White-eyed Parakeet Psittacara leucophthalmus 8 greg. voc. flocks in flight over clearings and forest edge, MM
PASSERIFORMES: Pipridae
- Saffron-crested Tyrant-Manakin Neopelma chrysocephalum 1 voc., active at mid-level, forest edge and interior, MM
- Golden-headed Manakin Ceratopipra erythrocephala 1 (f) eating red berries in forest edge understory, MM
PASSERIFORMES: Cotingidae
- Guianan Cock of the Rock Rupicola rupicola 14 (13 m; 1 f) ad., imm; greg. 12 m in a roped-off lekking area of small diameter rainforest trees; other individual males active in orchard fruit trees around the lodge; most of the birds appeared habituated to human presence, MM.
- Capuchinbird Perissocephalus tricolor 1 vocal an individual active in the high tree canopy of the interior forest; furtive and difficult to approach; vocalizations occasionally heard from the lodge dining area – far carrying moaning-like sounds MM.
- Spangled Cotinga Cotinga cayana 1 perched in a leafless tree canopy at the edge of the forest; another in the crown of a tall palm tree, MM.
- Screaming Piha Lipaugus vociferans 1 voc. (unseen) forest interior along lodge access road, MM.
PASSERIFORMES: Tityridae
- Black-tailed Tityra Tityra cayana 1 in canopy of garden fruiting tree; flying to adjacent forest, MM
PASSERIFORMES: Pipromorphidae
- Ochre-bellied Flycatcher Mionectes oleagineus 1 active at forest edge, MM
- White-eyed Tody Tyrant Hemitriccus zosterops 1 active at mid-level understory of forest edge, MM
PASSERIFORMES: Tyrannidae
- Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet Tyrannulus elatus 1 active in the canopy of cercropias and other forest edge trees, MM
- Piratic Flycatcher Legatus leucophaeus 2 vocal in canopy of garden fruiting trees, MM
- Great Kiskadee Pitangus sulphuratus 2 vocal, active in trees at edge of clearings, ubiq..
- Lesser Kiskadee Pitangus lictor 1 in garden tree, MM
- Sulphury Flycatcher Tyrannopsis sulphurea 1 in garden tree at edge of clearing, MM
- Rusty-margined Flycatcher Myiozetetes cyanensis 2 active hawking insects; sallying from orchard trees to ground and tree foliage, MM (photo).
- Social Flycatcher Myiozetetes similis 3 active, sallying for insects from orchard trees and the forest edge, MM
- Tropical Kingbird Tyrannus melancholicus 3 greg., vocal, sallying from trees and utility wires; open areas, vacant lots, ubiq. (photo).
- Short-crested Flycatcher Myiarchus ferox 2 greg. sallying and hawking insects from low tree limbs; sometimes going to the ground, MM
PASSERIFORMES: Thamnophilidae
- Guianan Warbling Antbird Hypocnemis cantator 1 voc. active in forest edge understory, MM
PASSERIFORMES: Vireonidae
- Rufous-browed Peppershrike Cyclarhis gujanensis 1 active at forest edge and in garden fruit trees, MM
- Chivi Vireo Vireo chivi 2 active in garden fruit trees and forest edge canopy, MM; MUS
PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae
- Golden-winged Euphonia Euphonia cayennensis 1 voc. (m) forest edge and garden trees, MM (photo).
PASSERIFORMES: Icteridae
- Crested Oropendola Psarocolius decumanus 1 active in a forest edge tree at the visitor’s center, MUS
- Red-rumped Cacique Cacicus haemorrhous 1 alighted briefly in a garden tree; flew back into the forest, MM
- Yellow-rumped Cacique Cacicus cela 4 greg. voc. in cercropias, palms and other garden trees, MM (photo).
PASSERIFORMES: Thraupidae
- Silver-beaked Tanager Rhamphocelus carbo 2 greg. a pair active in second-growth and fruit trees at the forest edge, MM (photo).
- Buff-throated Saltator Saltator maximus 2 active in second-growth and forest edge, IBH, MM
- Bananaquit Coereba flaveola 1 active in garden fruit trees and palms, MM
- Blue-gray Tanager Tangara episcopus 6 in msf with PATA and other small passerines, ubiq..
- Palm Tanager Tangara palmarum 4 active in palms and hawking insects below floodlights, ubiq..
PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae
- Martin Progne sp. 6 circling at 80-150m agl over forest and open areas, IBH
PASSERIFORMES: Troglodytidae
- Southern House Wren Troglodytes musculus 2 greg. a pair active on ground around buildings, base of trees and in dense second-growth at the forest edge, MM
PASSERIFORMES: Turdidae
- Pale-breasted Thrush Turdus leucomelas 2 imm on ground in shade at visitor’s center, MUS
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