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South American Countries - Comparative Birding Statistics
South American Endemic Families List
South American Endangered Species

South American Birding Hotspots by Country
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South American Endemic Families List

Information on endemics is derived from Sibley & Monroe checklists in Thayer's Birder's Diary - Version 2.05.
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Rheas
Screamers
Trumpeters		 Seriemas
Magellanic Plover
Seedsnipe		 Hoatzin
Oilbird
Gnateaters
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Neotropical Endemic Families List
(only found in Central America, Caribbean and South America)
Tinamous
Subittern
Potoos
Motmots
Jacamars
Puffbirds		 American Barbets
Toucans
Woodcreepers
Furnalids
Antbirds		 Antthrushes and Antpittas
Tapaculos
Cotingas
Sharpbill
Manakins

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South American Endangered Species

Information on endangered birds is derived from the IUCN Red List, Birdlife International, and supporting data bases developed by Ian Patton, of Merlin Species Watcher.
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___ Alagoas Antwren
___ Alagoas Curassow
___ Alagoas Foliage-gleaner
___ Alagoas Tyrannulet
___ Andean Flamingo
___ Antioquia Bristle-Tyrant
___ Apolinar's Wren
___ Apurimac Spinetail
___ Ash-breasted Tit-Tyrant
___ Ash-throated Antwren
___ Ashy Antwren
___ Atlantic Royal Flycatcher
___ Austral Canastero
___ Austral Rail
___ Banded Cotinga
___ Banded Ground-Cuckoo
___ Band-tailed Antwren
___ Baudo Guan
___ Baudo Oropendola
___ Bearded Guan
___ Berlepsch's Canastero
___ Bicolored Antpitta
___ Bicolored Antvireo
___ Black Inca
___ Black Tinamou
___ Black-and-gold Tanager
___ Black-and-Tawny Seedeater
___ Black-and-white Monjita
___ Black-backed Tanager
___ Black-breasted Puffleg
___ Black-capped Piprites
___ Black-fronted Piping-Guan
___ Black-headed Berryeater
___ Black-hooded Antwren
___ Black-legged Dacnis
___ Black-masked Finch
___ Black-tailed Antbird
___ Blackish-headed Spinetail
___ Blue-bellied Parrot
___ Blue-eyed Ground-Dove
___ Blue-knobbed Curassow
___ Blue-throated Macaw
___ Blue-throated Parakeet
___ Blue-winged Macaw
___ Bogota Rail
___ Bogota Sunangel
___ Bolivian Recurvebill
___ Brasilia Tapaculo
___ Brazillian Merganser
___ Brown Wood-Rail 
___ Brown-banded Antpitta
___ Brown-breasted Parakeet
___ Brown-backed Parrotlet
___ Buff-breasted Tody-Tyrant
___ Buff-throated Purpletuft
___ Buffy-fronted Seedeater
___ Cauca Guan
___ Cayenne Nightjar
___ Charles Mockingbird
___ Cherry-throated Tanager
___ Chestnut-bellied Cotinga
___ Chestnut-bellied Guan
___ Chestnut-bellied Hummingbird
___ Chestnut-sided Tapaculo
___ Chilean Woodstar
___ Choco Tinamou
___ Choco Vireo
___ Cinnamon-vented Piha
___ Cipo Canastero
___ Cobb's Wren
___ Cochabamba Mountain-Finch
___ Colorful Puffleg
___ Cone-billed Tanager
___ Coppery Thorntail
___ Coppery-chested Jacamar
___ Crowned Eagle
___ Cundinamarca Antpitta
___ Defillipi's Petrel
___ Dinelli's Doradito
___ Dot-winged Crake
___ Dwarf Tinamou
___ El Oro Parakeet
___ Eskimo Curlew**
___ Esmeraldas Woodstar
___ Five-colored Barbet
___ Forbes's Blackbird
___ Fork-tailed Tody-Tyrant
___ Fringe-backed Fire-eye
___ Galapagos Cormorant
___ Galapagos Hawk
___ Galapagos Penguin
___ Galapagos Petrel
___ Giant Antpitta		 ___ Gold-ringed Tanager
___ Golden Parakeet
___ Golden-backed 
___ Mountain-Tanager
___ Golden-capped Parakeet
___ Golden-crowned Manakin
___ Golden-plumed Parakeet
___ Golden-tailed Parrotlet
___ Gorgeted Wood-Quail
___ Green-capped Tanager
___ Grey-backed Hawk
___ Grey-breasted Flycatcher
___ Grey-headed Antbird
___ Grey-headed Warbler
___ Grey-winged Cotinga
___ Great Xenops
___ Helmeted Curassow
___ Helmeted Woodpecker
___ Henna-hooded Foliage-gleaner
___ Hoary-throated Spinetail
___ Hooded Antpitta
___ Hooded Seedeater
___ Hook-billed Hermit
___ Horned Coot
___ Horned Curassow
___ Hyacinth Macaw
___ Indigo Macaw
___ Indigo-winged Parrot
___ Juan Fernandez Firecrown
___ Junin Rail
___ Kaempfer's Tody-Tyrant
___ Kalinowski's Tinamou
___ Kinglet Calyptura
___ Lava Gull
___ Lesser Nothura
___ Little Blue (Spix's) Macaw
___ Little Woodstar
___ Long-wattled Umbrellabird
___ Magdelena Tinamou
___ Mangrove Finch
___ Maquis Canastero
___ Marsh Seedeater
___ Markham's Storm-Petrel
___ Marsh Seedeater
___ Marvelous Spatuletail
___ Masafuera Rayadito
___ Masked Mountain-Tanage
___ Military Macaw
___ Minas Gerais Tyrannulet
___ Moustached Antpitta
___ Moustached Woodcreeper
___ Multicolored Tanager
___ Narosky's Seedeater
___ Narrow-billed Antwren
___ Niceforo's Wren
___ Noronha Vireo
___ Ochraceous Attila
___ Ochraceous Piculet
___ Ochre-bellied Dove
___ Ochre-breasted Pipit
___ Olive-headed Brush-Finch
___ Olrog's Gull
___ Orange-bellied Antwren
___ Orange-throated Tanager
___ Orinoco Softtail
___ Pacific Royal Flycatcher
___ Pale-headed Brush-Finch
___ Pale-tailed Canastero
___ Pampas Meadowlark
___ Pectoral Antwren
___ Peruvian Diving-Petrel
___ Peruvian Plant-cutter
___ Pink-footed Shearwater
___ Pinto's Spinetail
___ Plain-flanked Rail
___ Plain-tailed Warbling-Finch
___ Plumbeous Antvireo
___ Plumbeous Forest-Falcon
___ Puna Flamingo
___ Puna Grebe
___ Purple-backed Sunbeam
___ Purple-winged Ground-Dove
___ Recurve-billed Bushbird
___ Red Siskin
___ Red-bellied Grackle
___ Red-billed Curassow
___ Red-browed Parrot
___ Red-faced Parrot
___ Red-fronted Macaw		 ___ Red-shouldered Spinetail
___ Red-spectacled Parrot
___ Red-tailed Parrot
___ Restinga Antwren
___ Restinga Tyrannulet
___ Ringed Storm-Petrel
___ Rio Branco Antbird
___ Rio de Janeiro Antwren
___ Rondonia Bushbird
___ Royal Cinclodes
___ Royal Sunangel
___ Rufous-bellied Saltator
___ Rufous-faced Crake
___ Rufous-fronted Parakeet
___ Rufous-headed Chachalaca
___ Rufous-necked 
___ Foliage-Gleaner
___ Rufous-sided Pygmy-Tyrant
___ Rufous-throated Dipper
___ Russet-winged Spadebill
___ Rusty-faced Parrot
___ Saffron Finch
___ Saffron Siskin
___ Saffron-breasted Redstart
___ Saffron-cowled Blackbird
___ St. Andrew Vireo
___ Salvadori's Antwren
___ Santa Marta Bush-Tyrant
___ Santa Marta Parakeet
___ Sao Paulo Tyrannulet
___ Sapphire-bellied Hummingbird
___ Scalloped Antbird
___ Scarlet-breasted Dacnis
___ Selva Cacique
___ Seven-colored Tanager
___ Shrike-like Cotinga
___ Slaty-backed Hemispingus
___ Slender Antbird
___ Slender-billed Finch
___ Speckled Antshrike
___ Speckled Rail
___ Spot-winged Parrotlet
___ Steinbach's Canastero
___ Strange-tailed Tyrant
___ Stresemann's Bristlefront
___ Striated Softtail
___ Tachira Antpitta
___ Tachira Emerald
___ Taczanowski's Tinamou
___ Tamarugo Conebill
___ Tanager Finch
___ Tawny Piculet
___ Temminck's Seedeater
___ Tepui Tinamou
___ Three-toed Jacamar
___ Tolima Dove
___ Tucuman Mountain-Finch
___ Tumaco Seedeater
___ Turquoise Dacnis
___ Turquoise-throated Puffleg
___ Unicolored Antwren
___ Venezuelan Flower-piercer
___ Violet-throated Metaltail
___ Vinaceous Parrot
___ Wattled Curassow
___ Westland Petrel**
___ White-bearded Antshrike
___ White-bellied Cinclodes
___ White-browed Tit-Spinetail
___ White-cheeked Cotinga
___ White-chested Swift
___ White-mantled Barbet
___ White-masked Antbird
___ White-necked Hawk
___ White-necked Parakeet
___ White-tailed Shrike-Tyrant
___ White-throated Barbtail
___ White-vented Storm-Petrel
___ White-winged Cotinga
___ White-winged Guan
___ White-winged Nightjar
___ Yellow Cardinal
___ Yellow-eared Parrot
___ Yellow-faced Parrot
___ Yellow-faced Redstart
___ Yellow-faced Siskin
___ Yellow-green Bush-Tanager
___ Yellow-rumped Antwren

** Non-breeding

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