Birds of the Amazon

Birds of the Amazon

Peru

Summer 2002

I saw these birds. I saw them for just a fleeting moment.  Mostly I was on the Amazon River, in a dugout canoe, when I saw them. A guide pointed them out to me and I quickly got my binoculars and looked and looked and looked until I saw a colorful flicker in the trees. Once they were completely out of my sight, I rushed to my bird book and looked up what I supposedly just saw. Most of the time, I could confirm my sighting.  Some of them were sketchy and other times, I was flat out off on the sighting. And if I ever had to identify these birds, that just wasn’t going to happen.  But for 101 moments, these birds brought me great joy.

1-   Amazon flycatcher

2-   Amazon kingfisher

3-   Amazon mealy parrot

4-   American kestrel

5-   American Swallow Tail Kite

6-   Aracari ticanet

7-   Barred Antshrike

8-   Beardless tirannulet

9-   Black caracara

10-         Black chested cuckoo

11-         Black collar hawk

12-         Black collared hawk

13-         Black fronted nunbird

14-         Black fronted nunbird

15-         Black tailed tityra

16-         Black Tailed Trogan

17-         Black throated trogan

18-         Blackbilled thrash

19-         Blackfaced nunbird

20-         Blue billed thrush

21-         Blue crown tanager

22-         Blue crowned anteater

23-         Blue Grey Tanager

24-         Blue headed parrot

25-         Blue tanager

26-         Boat billed flycatcher

27-         Buff Breasted Wren 

28-         Buff throated wood creeper

29-         Caperel

30-         Capped heron

31-         Chestnut bellied seedeater

32-         Chestnut billed thrush

33-         Chestnut eared toucan

34-         Cobalt winged parrots

35-         Colbolt parrot

36-         Common black vulture

37-         Covered winged parakeet

38-         Crimson breasted manakin

39-         Dusky capped flycatcher

40-         Great black hawk

41-         Great kiskadee

42-         Great tinamou

43-         Greater ani

44-         Greater Manakin

45-         Green kingfisher

46-         Grey Flycatcher

47-         Ladder tail nightjar

48-         Laughing falcon

49-         Lesser kiskadee

50-         Lineated Wood Creeper

51-         Lineated woodpecker

52-         Masked crimson tanager

53-         Masked Tityra

54-         Mealy parrot

55-         Ondulated tinamou

56-         Opal crowned tanager

57-         Opal rumped tanager

58-         Orange Bellied Euphonia

59-         Paradise jacamar

60-         Paradise tanager

61-         Plumbeos kite

62-         Red capped cardinal

63-         Red capped manakin

64-         Ring-necked kingfisher

65-         Roadside Hawk

66-         Rough wing swallow

67-         Ruddy ground dove

68-         Ruffed Winged Swallow

69-         Scarlet crowned barbet

70-         Scarlet macaw

71-         Schonen flycatcher

72-         Short tail swift

73-         Short tailed parrot

74-         Shorttailed pygmy tyrane

75-         Silver beaded tanager

76-         Smooth billed ani

77-         Social flycatcher

78-         Southern Ruffed Winged Swallow

79-         Strided heron

80-         Strong billed wood creeper

81-         Swallow tailed kite

82-         Swallowed Winged Puff Bird

83-         Thrashed Like Wren

84-         Tropical kingbird

85-         Turkey vulture

86-         Turquoise Tanager

87-         Variable Chachalaca

88-         Velvet fronted grackle

89-         White Eared Jacamar

90-         White egret

91-         White Mulliparrot 

92-         White necked heron

93-         White Necked Thrush

94-         White tailed manakin

95-         White Tailed Trogan

96-         White throated Theresa

97-         White Vented Euphonia

98-         White Winged Swallow

99-     Yellow rump cacique

100-     Yellow tufted woodpecker

101-     Yellowheaded caracara