French Guiana bird checklist

713 bird species in 85 families have been recorded in French Guiana, according to eBird; about 412 of them are seen regularly, and the rest are rarities, vagrants and escaped or introduced birds. Download the full list as a PDF, or tick birds off on your phone, with counts and notes, even without signal.

Species data: eBird.org, updated · How these lists are made

The most common birds in French Guiana right now

  1. 1Semipalmated Plover
  2. 2Black-crowned Night Heron
  3. 3American Golden-Plover
  4. 4Black Vulture
  5. 5Scarlet Ibis
  6. 6Tropical Kingbird
  7. 7Lesser Nighthawk
  8. 8Blue-and-yellow Macaw
  9. 9Tricolored Heron
  10. 10Black Skimmer
The top 20, and how they are ranked

French Guiana bird checklist

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Tinamous

  • Great Tinamou
  • Cinereous Tinamou
  • Variegated Tinamou
  • Rusty Tinamou
  • Little Tinamou

Screamers

  • Horned Screamer

Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • White-faced Whistling-Duck
  • Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
  • Fulvous Whistling-Duck
  • Comb Duck
  • Muscovy Duck
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • American Wigeon
  • White-cheeked Pintail
  • Northern Pintail
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Lesser Scaup
  • Masked Duck

Guans, Chachalacas, and Curassows

  • Blue-throated Piping-Guan
  • Marail Guan
  • Black Curassow
  • Variable Chachalaca

New World Quail

  • Crested Bobwhite
  • Marbled Wood-Quail

Pigeons and Doves

  • Rock Pigeon
  • Pale-vented Pigeon
  • Scaled Pigeon
  • Plumbeous Pigeon
  • Ruddy Pigeon
  • Common Ground Dove
  • Plain-breasted Ground Dove
  • Ruddy Ground Dove
  • Blue Ground Dove
  • Ruddy Quail-Dove
  • White-tipped Dove
  • Gray-fronted Dove
  • Eared Dove

Cuckoos

  • Greater Ani
  • Smooth-billed Ani
  • Striped Cuckoo
  • Pavonine Cuckoo
  • Little Cuckoo
  • Common Squirrel-Cuckoo
  • Black-bellied Cuckoo
  • Dark-billed Cuckoo
  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  • Pearly-breasted Cuckoo
  • Mangrove Cuckoo

Nightjars and Allies

  • Nacunda Nighthawk
  • Lesser Nighthawk
  • Short-tailed Nighthawk
  • Band-tailed Nighthawk
  • Blackish Nightjar
  • Common Pauraque
  • Spot-tailed Nightjar
  • White-tailed Nightjar
  • Ladder-tailed Nightjar
  • Rufous Nightjar

Potoos

  • Rufous Potoo
  • Great Potoo
  • Long-tailed Potoo
  • Common Potoo
  • White-winged Potoo

Oilbird

  • Oilbird

Swifts

  • White-chinned Swift
  • White-collared Swift
  • Band-rumped Swift
  • Chapman's Swift
  • Sick's Swift
  • Short-tailed Swift
  • White-tipped Swift
  • Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift
  • Fork-tailed Palm Swift

Hummingbirds

  • Crimson Topaz
  • White-necked Jacobin
  • Rufous-breasted Hermit
  • Sooty Barbthroat
  • Straight-billed Hermit
  • Long-tailed Hermit
  • Great-billed Hermit
  • Little Hermit
  • Reddish Hermit
  • Sooty-capped Hermit
  • Black-eared Fairy
  • White-tailed Goldenthroat
  • Green-tailed Goldenthroat
  • Fiery-tailed Awlbill
  • Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
  • Black-throated Mango
  • Green-throated Mango
  • Racket-tipped Thorntail
  • Tufted Coquette
  • Amethyst Woodstar
  • Blue-tailed Emerald
  • Gray-breasted Sabrewing
  • Fork-tailed Woodnymph
  • Copper-tailed Hummingbird
  • White-chested Emerald
  • Plain-bellied Emerald
  • Glittering-throated Emerald
  • Rufous-throated Sapphire
  • White-chinned Sapphire
  • Blue-chinned Sapphire

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Mangrove Rail
  • Ash-throated Crake
  • Paint-billed Crake
  • Uniform Crake
  • Little Wood-Rail
  • Rufous-necked Wood-Rail
  • Gray-cowled Wood-Rail
  • Common Gallinule
  • Purple Gallinule
  • Azure Gallinule
  • Ocellated Crake
  • Russet-crowned Crake
  • Yellow-breasted Crake
  • Rufous-sided Crake
  • Gray-breasted Crake
  • Black Rail

Finfoots

  • Sungrebe

Limpkin

  • Limpkin

Trumpeters

  • Gray-winged Trumpeter

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-necked Stilt

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • American Golden-Plover
  • Pied Plover
  • Semipalmated Plover
  • Wilson's Plover
  • Collared Plover

Jacanas

  • Wattled Jacana

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Upland Sandpiper
  • Hudsonian Whimbrel
  • Bar-tailed Godwit
  • Hudsonian Godwit
  • Marbled Godwit
  • Short-billed Dowitcher
  • Giant Snipe
  • Pantanal Snipe
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Wood Sandpiper
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Willet
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Red Knot
  • Ruff
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Stilt Sandpiper
  • Buff-breasted Sandpiper
  • Sanderling
  • Dunlin
  • White-rumped Sandpiper
  • Least Sandpiper
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Western Sandpiper
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper

Skuas and Jaegers

  • Long-tailed Jaeger
  • Parasitic Jaeger
  • Pomarine Jaeger
  • Great Skua
  • South Polar Skua

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Little Gull
  • Black-headed Gull
  • Gray-hooded Gull
  • Laughing Gull
  • Audouin's Gull
  • Kelp Gull
  • American Herring Gull
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • Black Skimmer
  • Brown Noddy
  • Sooty Tern
  • Bridled Tern
  • Least Tern
  • Yellow-billed Tern
  • Large-billed Tern
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Black Tern
  • White-winged Tern
  • Arctic Tern
  • Common Tern
  • Roseate Tern
  • Sandwich Tern
  • Royal Tern

Flamingos

  • American Flamingo

Grebes

  • Least Grebe
  • Pied-billed Grebe

Hoatzin

  • Hoatzin

Sunbittern

  • Sunbittern

Tropicbirds

  • Red-billed Tropicbird

Southern Storm-Petrels

  • Wilson's Storm-Petrel
  • Black-bellied Storm-Petrel

Northern Storm-Petrels

  • Leach's Storm-Petrel
  • Band-rumped Storm-Petrel

Shearwaters and Petrels

  • Trindade Petrel
  • Bulwer's Petrel
  • Cory's Shearwater
  • Great Shearwater
  • Manx Shearwater
  • Sargasso Shearwater

Storks

  • Maguari Stork
  • Jabiru
  • Wood Stork

Frigatebirds

  • Magnificent Frigatebird

Boobies and Gannets

  • Red-footed Booby
  • Brown Booby
  • Masked Booby

Anhingas

  • Anhinga

Cormorants and Shags

  • Neotropic Cormorant

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • Scarlet Ibis
  • Glossy Ibis
  • Green Ibis
  • Bare-faced Ibis
  • Buff-necked Ibis
  • Roseate Spoonbill

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • Rufescent Tiger-Heron
  • Fasciated Tiger-Heron
  • Boat-billed Heron
  • Agami Heron
  • Zigzag Heron
  • Pinnated Bittern
  • Least Bittern
  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron
  • Black-crowned Night Heron
  • Capped Heron
  • Little Blue Heron
  • Tricolored Heron
  • Snowy Egret
  • Little Egret
  • Western Reef-Heron
  • Striated Heron
  • Squacco Heron
  • Western Cattle-Egret
  • Great Egret
  • Gray Heron
  • Great Blue Heron
  • Cocoi Heron

Pelicans

  • Brown Pelican

New World Vultures

  • King Vulture
  • Black Vulture
  • Turkey Vulture
  • Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
  • Greater Yellow-headed Vulture

Osprey

  • Osprey

Hawks, Eagles, and Kites

  • Pearl Kite
  • White-tailed Kite
  • Hook-billed Kite
  • Gray-headed Kite
  • Swallow-tailed Kite
  • Black Hawk-Eagle
  • Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle
  • Ornate Hawk-Eagle
  • Crested Eagle
  • Harpy Eagle
  • Gray-bellied Hawk
  • Bicolored Hawk
  • Long-winged Harrier
  • Tiny Hawk
  • Double-toothed Kite
  • Rufous-thighed Kite
  • Black Kite
  • Plumbeous Kite
  • Crane Hawk
  • Black-collared Hawk
  • Snail Kite
  • Slender-billed Kite
  • Slate-colored Hawk
  • Rufous Crab Hawk
  • Savanna Hawk
  • Great Black Hawk
  • Roadside Hawk
  • White-tailed Hawk
  • White Hawk
  • Black-faced Hawk
  • Gray-lined Hawk
  • Broad-winged Hawk
  • Zone-tailed Hawk
  • Short-tailed Hawk

Barn-Owls

  • American Barn Owl

Owls

  • Tropical Screech-Owl
  • Foothill Screech-Owl
  • Tawny-bellied Screech-Owl
  • Crested Owl
  • Spectacled Owl
  • Great Horned Owl
  • Amazonian Pygmy-Owl
  • Burrowing Owl
  • Mottled Owl
  • Black-banded Owl
  • Striped Owl

Trogons

  • Black-tailed Trogon
  • Green-backed Trogon
  • Guianan Violaceous Trogon
  • Amazonian Black-throated Trogon
  • Collared Trogon

Motmots

  • Amazonian Motmot

Kingfishers

  • Ringed Kingfisher
  • Belted Kingfisher
  • Amazon Kingfisher
  • American Pygmy Kingfisher
  • Green Kingfisher
  • Green-and-rufous Kingfisher

Puffbirds

  • Guianan Puffbird
  • Pied Puffbird
  • Spotted Puffbird
  • Collared Puffbird
  • White-chested Puffbird
  • Rusty-breasted Nunlet
  • Black Nunbird
  • Swallow-winged Puffbird

Jacamars

  • Brown Jacamar
  • Yellow-billed Jacamar
  • Green-tailed Jacamar
  • Bronzy Jacamar
  • Paradise Jacamar
  • Great Jacamar

New World Barbets

  • Black-spotted Barbet

Toucans

  • Green Aracari
  • Black-necked Aracari
  • Guianan Toucanet
  • Toco Toucan
  • White-throated Toucan
  • Channel-billed Toucan

Woodpeckers

  • Golden-spangled Piculet
  • Arrowhead Piculet
  • White-barred Piculet
  • White Woodpecker
  • Yellow-tufted Woodpecker
  • Golden-collared Woodpecker
  • Blood-colored Woodpecker
  • Little Woodpecker
  • Red-necked Woodpecker
  • Crimson-crested Woodpecker
  • Lineated Woodpecker
  • Ringed Woodpecker
  • Waved Woodpecker
  • Cream-colored Woodpecker
  • Chestnut Woodpecker
  • Yellow-throated Woodpecker
  • Golden-green Woodpecker
  • Golden-olive Woodpecker
  • Spot-breasted Woodpecker

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Laughing Falcon
  • Collared Forest-Falcon
  • Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon
  • Barred Forest-Falcon
  • Lined Forest-Falcon
  • Crested Caracara
  • Red-throated Caracara
  • Yellow-headed Caracara
  • Black Caracara
  • Eurasian Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Aplomado Falcon
  • Bat Falcon
  • Orange-breasted Falcon
  • Peregrine Falcon

Cockatoos

  • Sulphur-crested Cockatoo

Old World Parrots

  • Rose-ringed Parakeet

New World and African Parrots

  • Lilac-tailed Parrotlet
  • Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet
  • Golden-winged Parakeet
  • Caica Parrot
  • Dusky Parrot
  • Blue-headed Parrot
  • Short-tailed Parrot
  • Blue-cheeked Amazon
  • Mealy Amazon
  • Orange-winged Amazon
  • Green-rumped Parrotlet
  • Black-headed Parrot
  • Red-fan Parrot
  • Painted Parakeet
  • Peach-fronted Parakeet
  • Brown-throated Parakeet
  • Red-bellied Macaw
  • Blue-and-yellow Macaw
  • Chestnut-fronted Macaw
  • Scarlet Macaw
  • Red-and-green Macaw
  • Red-shouldered Macaw
  • White-eyed Parakeet

Typical Antbirds

  • Ash-winged Antwren
  • Fasciated Antshrike
  • Black-throated Antshrike
  • Great Antshrike
  • Black-crested Antshrike
  • Barred Antshrike
  • Mouse-colored Antshrike
  • Blackish-gray Antshrike
  • Northern Slaty-Antshrike
  • Band-tailed Antshrike
  • Amazonian Antshrike
  • Dusky-throated Antshrike
  • Cinereous Antshrike
  • Rufous-bellied Antwren
  • Brown-bellied Stipplethroat
  • Pygmy Antwren
  • Guianan Streaked-Antwren
  • White-flanked Antwren
  • Long-winged Antwren
  • Gray Antwren
  • Spot-tailed Antwren
  • Todd's Antwren
  • Dot-winged Antwren
  • Southern White-fringed Antwren
  • Guianan Warbling-Antbird
  • Dusky Antbird
  • Blackish Antbird
  • Gray Antbird
  • White-browed Antbird
  • Black-chinned Antbird
  • Silvered Antbird
  • Black-headed Antbird
  • Spot-winged Antbird
  • Ferruginous-backed Antbird
  • Black-throated Antbird
  • Wing-banded Antbird
  • White-plumed Antbird
  • Rufous-throated Antbird
  • Spot-backed Antbird
  • Common Scale-backed Antbird

Gnateaters

  • Chestnut-belted Gnateater

Antpittas

  • Variegated Antpitta
  • Spotted Antpitta
  • Thrush-like Antpitta

Antthrushes

  • Rufous-capped Antthrush
  • Black-faced Antthrush

Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers

  • South American Leaftosser
  • Short-billed Leaftosser
  • Black-tailed Leaftosser
  • Spot-throated Woodcreeper
  • Whistling Long-tailed Woodcreeper
  • White-chinned Woodcreeper
  • Plain-brown Woodcreeper
  • Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
  • Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper
  • Long-billed Woodcreeper
  • Amazonian Barred-Woodcreeper
  • Black-banded Woodcreeper
  • Red-billed Woodcreeper
  • Striped Woodcreeper
  • Chestnut-rumped Woodcreeper
  • Buff-throated Woodcreeper
  • Straight-billed Woodcreeper
  • Curve-billed Scythebill
  • Guianan Woodcreeper
  • Slender-billed Xenops
  • Amazonian Plain-Xenops
  • Point-tailed Palmcreeper
  • Rufous-tailed Xenops
  • Rufous-rumped Foliage-gleaner
  • Cinnamon-rumped Foliage-gleaner
  • Rufous-tailed Foliage-gleaner
  • Ruddy Foliage-gleaner
  • Chestnut-crowned Foliage-gleaner
  • Ochre-throated Foliage-gleaner
  • Olive-backed Foliage-gleaner
  • Speckled Spinetail
  • Yellow-chinned Spinetail
  • White-bellied Spinetail
  • Plain-crowned Spinetail
  • McConnell's Spinetail
  • Pale-breasted Spinetail

Manakins

  • Tiny Tyrant-Manakin
  • Blue-backed Manakin
  • White-throated Manakin
  • Black Manakin
  • White-fronted Manakin
  • White-bearded Manakin
  • Crimson-hooded Manakin
  • White-crowned Manakin
  • Golden-headed Manakin

Cotingas

  • Guianan Red-Cotinga
  • Guianan Cock-of-the-rock
  • Crimson Fruitcrow
  • Purple-throated Fruitcrow
  • Capuchinbird
  • Purple-breasted Cotinga
  • Spangled Cotinga
  • Screaming Piha
  • White Bellbird
  • Pompadour Cotinga
  • Bare-necked Fruitcrow

Tityras and Allies

  • Black-tailed Tityra
  • Black-crowned Tityra
  • Olivaceous Schiffornis
  • Cinereous Mourner
  • Dusky Purpletuft
  • Green-backed Becard
  • Cinereous Becard
  • White-winged Becard
  • Black-capped Becard
  • Glossy-backed Becard
  • Pink-throated Becard

Sharpbill

  • Sharpbill

Royal Flycatchers and Allies

  • Tropical Royal Flycatcher
  • Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher
  • Whiskered Flycatcher

Tyrant Flycatchers

  • Wing-barred Piprites
  • Cinnamon Manakin-Tyrant
  • Cinnamon-crested Spadebill
  • Golden-crowned Spadebill
  • White-crested Spadebill
  • Ochre-bellied Flycatcher
  • McConnell's Flycatcher
  • Sepia-capped Flycatcher
  • Olive-green Tyrannulet
  • Ringed Antpipit
  • Short-tailed Pygmy-Tyrant
  • Double-banded Pygmy-Tyrant
  • Helmeted Pygmy-Tyrant
  • Boat-billed Tody-Tyrant
  • White-eyed Tody-Tyrant
  • Smoky-fronted Tody-Flycatcher
  • Spotted Tody-Flycatcher
  • Common Tody-Flycatcher
  • Painted Tody-Flycatcher
  • Eastern Olivaceous Flatbill
  • Yellow-olive Flatbill
  • Yellow-margined Flatbill
  • Gray-crowned Flatbill
  • Ochre-lored Flatbill
  • Cliff Flycatcher
  • White-lored Tyrannulet
  • Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet
  • Mouse-colored Tyrannulet
  • Yellow Tyrannulet
  • Bearded Tachuri
  • Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet
  • Forest Elaenia
  • Amazonian Elaenia
  • Yellow-crowned Elaenia
  • Plain-crested Elaenia
  • Yellow-bellied Elaenia
  • Small-billed Elaenia
  • Lesser Elaenia
  • Sooty-headed Tyrannulet
  • Guianan Tyrannulet
  • Pale-tipped Tyrannulet
  • Bran-colored Flycatcher
  • Euler's Flycatcher
  • Olive-sided Flycatcher
  • White-throated Pewee
  • Northern Tropical Pewee
  • Fuscous Flycatcher
  • Northern Scrub-Flycatcher
  • Amazonian Scrub-Flycatcher
  • White-headed Marsh Tyrant
  • Pied Water-Tyrant
  • Long-tailed Tyrant
  • Rufous-tailed Flatbill
  • Cinnamon Attila
  • Bright-rumped Attila
  • Todd's Sirystes
  • Grayish Mourner
  • Dusky-capped Flycatcher
  • Short-crested Flycatcher
  • Brown-crested Flycatcher
  • Lesser Kiskadee
  • Great Kiskadee
  • Boat-billed Flycatcher
  • Rusty-margined Flycatcher
  • Social Flycatcher
  • Dusky-chested Flycatcher
  • Yellow-throated Flycatcher
  • Streaked Flycatcher
  • Piratic Flycatcher
  • Variegated Flycatcher
  • Sulphury Flycatcher
  • White-throated Kingbird
  • Tropical Kingbird
  • Eastern Kingbird
  • Gray Kingbird
  • Fork-tailed Flycatcher

Vireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis

  • Rufous-browed Peppershrike
  • Ashy-headed Greenlet
  • Gray-chested Greenlet
  • Lemon-chested Greenlet
  • Slaty-capped Shrike-Vireo
  • Guianan Greenlet
  • Buff-cheeked Greenlet
  • Yellow-throated Vireo
  • Red-eyed Vireo
  • Chivi Vireo
  • Black-whiskered Vireo

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

  • Cayenne Jay

Donacobius

  • Black-capped Donacobius

Swallows

  • Bank Swallow
  • White-winged Swallow
  • Purple Martin
  • Caribbean Martin
  • Gray-breasted Martin
  • Southern Martin
  • Brown-chested Martin
  • Southern Rough-winged Swallow
  • White-thighed Swallow
  • White-banded Swallow
  • Blue-and-white Swallow
  • Black-collared Swallow
  • Barn Swallow

Gnatcatchers

  • Collared Gnatwren
  • Long-billed Gnatwren
  • Guianan Gnatcatcher
  • Tropical Gnatcatcher

Wrens

  • Wing-banded Wren
  • Southern House Wren
  • Coraya Wren
  • Buff-breasted Wren
  • White-breasted Wood-Wren
  • Musician Wren

Mockingbirds and Thrashers

  • Tropical Mockingbird

Thrushes and Allies

  • White-necked Thrush
  • Pale-breasted Thrush
  • Cocoa Thrush
  • Spectacled Thrush

Old World Flycatchers

  • Northern Wheatear

Weavers and Allies

  • Yellow-crowned Bishop

Old World Sparrows

  • House Sparrow

Wagtails and Pipits

  • Yellowish Pipit

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Golden-rumped Euphonia
  • Plumbeous Euphonia
  • Finsch's Euphonia
  • Golden-bellied Euphonia
  • White-vented Euphonia
  • Violaceous Euphonia
  • Golden-sided Euphonia

New World Sparrows

  • Grassland Sparrow
  • Pectoral Sparrow
  • Rufous-collared Sparrow

Troupials and Allies

  • Bobolink
  • Eastern Meadowlark
  • Red-breasted Meadowlark
  • Green Oropendola
  • Crested Oropendola
  • Yellow-rumped Cacique
  • Red-rumped Cacique
  • Epaulet Oriole
  • Yellow Oriole
  • Shiny Cowbird
  • Giant Cowbird
  • Carib Grackle
  • Yellow-hooded Blackbird

New World Warblers

  • Northern Waterthrush
  • Masked Yellowthroat
  • American Redstart
  • Tropical Parula
  • Bay-breasted Warbler
  • Blackburnian Warbler
  • Northern Yellow Warbler
  • Blackpoll Warbler
  • Yellow-throated Warbler
  • Riverbank Warbler

Mitrospingid Tanagers

  • Red-billed Pied Tanager

Cardinals and Allies

  • Hepatic Tanager
  • Summer Tanager
  • Scarlet Tanager
  • Red-and-black Grosbeak
  • Yellow-green Grosbeak
  • Rose-breasted Chat
  • Amazonian Grosbeak
  • Dickcissel

Tanagers and Allies

  • Red-capped Cardinal
  • Black-faced Tanager
  • Hooded Tanager
  • Flame-crested Tanager
  • White-shouldered Tanager
  • Fulvous-crested Tanager
  • White-lined Tanager
  • Red-shouldered Tanager
  • Fulvous Shrike-Tanager
  • Silver-beaked Tanager
  • Blue-backed Tanager
  • Blue-gray Tanager
  • Palm Tanager
  • Dotted Tanager
  • Spotted Tanager
  • Burnished-buff Tanager
  • Turquoise Tanager
  • Paradise Tanager
  • Opal-rumped Tanager
  • Bay-headed Tanager
  • Swallow Tanager
  • Black-faced Dacnis
  • Blue Dacnis
  • Purple Honeycreeper
  • Red-legged Honeycreeper
  • Green Honeycreeper
  • Guira Tanager
  • Yellow-backed Tanager
  • Bicolored Conebill
  • Chestnut-vented Conebill
  • Grassland Yellow-Finch
  • Wedge-tailed Grass-Finch
  • Blue-black Grassquit
  • Lesson's Seedeater
  • Lined Seedeater
  • White-bellied Seedeater
  • Chestnut-bellied Seedeater
  • Ruddy-breasted Seedeater
  • Copper Seedeater
  • Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch
  • Large-billed Seed-Finch
  • Gray Seedeater
  • Wing-barred Seedeater
  • Yellow-bellied Seedeater
  • Plumbeous Seedeater
  • Bananaquit
  • Buff-throated Saltator
  • Olive-gray Saltator
  • Slate-colored Grosbeak

Most common birds in French Guiana

Ranked by how recently and how widely each was reported to eBird in the 30 days to 2026-10-13, and whether it is one of French Guiana’s regular birds. The list follows the seasons: migrants rise in spring and autumn.

  1. Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
  2. Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
  3. American Golden-PloverPluvialis dominica
  4. Black VultureCoragyps atratus
  5. Scarlet IbisEudocimus ruber
  6. Tropical KingbirdTyrannus melancholicus
  7. Lesser NighthawkChordeiles acutipennis
  8. Blue-and-yellow MacawAra ararauna
  9. Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
  10. Black SkimmerRynchops niger
  11. SanderlingCalidris alba
  12. Long-winged HarrierCircus buffoni
  13. Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
  14. House SparrowPasser domesticus
  15. Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
  16. Band-rumped SwiftChaetura spinicaudus
  17. WilletTringa semipalmata
  18. Black-headed ParrotPionites melanocephalus
  19. Green KingfisherChloroceryle americana
  20. Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla

Largest bird families in French Guiana

Among its regular birds.

  • Tyrant Flycatchers39
  • Typical Antbirds29
  • Tanagers and Allies27
  • New World and African Parrots21
  • Hummingbirds21
  • Sandpipers and Allies18
  • Hawks, Eagles, and Kites18
  • Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns16

Reported in the last 30 days

327 species reported to eBird in French Guiana in the 30 days to 2026-10-13. The 40 most recently reported:

Scarlet Ibis, Semipalmated Plover, Green Kingfisher, American Golden-Plover, Gray-cowled Wood-Rail, Long-winged Harrier, Collared Forest-Falcon, Black-crowned Night Heron, Lesser Nighthawk, Savanna Hawk, Spectacled Thrush, Spot-tailed Nightjar, Black-collared Hawk, Blue-and-yellow Macaw, Rufous-bellied Antwren, Northern Slaty-Antshrike, Yellow-margined Flatbill, Yellow-throated Flycatcher, White-throated Toucan, White-lored Tyrannulet, Black-headed Parrot, Black Vulture, White-flanked Antwren, Wedge-billed Woodcreeper, Brown-bellied Stipplethroat, Tropical Kingbird, Todd's Antwren, Channel-billed Toucan, Chivi Vireo, Chestnut-rumped Woodcreeper, Cinereous Antshrike, Tiny Tyrant-Manakin, Straight-billed Hermit, Double-toothed Kite, Dusky-capped Flycatcher, Dusky Parrot, Dusky-throated Antshrike, Fasciated Antshrike, Fork-tailed Woodnymph, Fulvous-crested Tanager, …