Paraguay bird checklist

721 bird species in 75 families have been recorded in Paraguay, according to eBird; about 545 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 Paraguay right now

  1. 1House Sparrow
  2. 2Great Egret
  3. 3Barn Swallow
  4. 4Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
  5. 5Wood Stork
  6. 6Southern Lapwing
  7. 7White-faced Whistling-Duck
  8. 8Black Vulture
  9. 9Wattled Jacana
  10. 10Great Kiskadee
The top 20, and how they are ranked

Paraguay bird checklist

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Rheas

  • Greater Rhea

Tinamous

  • Quebracho Crested-Tinamou
  • White-bellied Nothura
  • Lesser Nothura
  • Spotted Nothura
  • Red-winged Tinamou
  • Brushland Tinamou
  • Solitary Tinamou
  • Small-billed Tinamou
  • Tataupa Tinamou
  • Brown Tinamou
  • Undulated Tinamou

Screamers

  • Horned Screamer
  • Southern Screamer

Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • White-faced Whistling-Duck
  • Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
  • Fulvous Whistling-Duck
  • Graylag Goose
  • Coscoroba Swan
  • Comb Duck
  • Orinoco Goose
  • Muscovy Duck
  • Ringed Teal
  • Brazilian Teal
  • Silver Teal
  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Cinnamon Teal
  • Red Shoveler
  • Mallard
  • White-cheeked Pintail
  • Yellow-billed Pintail
  • Yellow-billed Teal
  • Rosy-billed Pochard
  • Black-headed Duck
  • Masked Duck
  • Lake Duck

Guans, Chachalacas, and Curassows

  • Black-fronted Piping-Guan
  • White-throated Piping-Guan
  • Dusky-legged Guan
  • Rusty-margined Guan
  • Bare-faced Curassow
  • Chaco Chachalaca

Guineafowl

  • Helmeted Guineafowl

New World Quail

  • Spot-winged Wood-Quail

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Red Junglefowl

Pigeons and Doves

  • Rock Pigeon
  • Pale-vented Pigeon
  • Scaled Pigeon
  • Picazuro Pigeon
  • Spot-winged Pigeon
  • Plain-breasted Ground Dove
  • Ruddy Ground Dove
  • Scaled Dove
  • Picui Ground Dove
  • Blue Ground Dove
  • Ruddy Quail-Dove
  • Violaceous Quail-Dove
  • White-tipped Dove
  • Gray-fronted Dove
  • Eared Dove

Cuckoos

  • Guira Cuckoo
  • Greater Ani
  • Smooth-billed Ani
  • Striped Cuckoo
  • Pheasant Cuckoo
  • Pavonine Cuckoo
  • Little Cuckoo
  • Ash-colored Cuckoo
  • Common Squirrel-Cuckoo
  • Dark-billed Cuckoo
  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  • Pearly-breasted Cuckoo
  • Black-billed Cuckoo

Nightjars and Allies

  • Nacunda Nighthawk
  • Lesser Nighthawk
  • Common Nighthawk
  • Short-tailed Nighthawk
  • Band-tailed Nighthawk
  • Common Pauraque
  • Little Nightjar
  • Spot-tailed Nightjar
  • Band-winged Nightjar
  • White-winged Nightjar
  • Sickle-winged Nightjar
  • Scissor-tailed Nightjar
  • Long-trained Nightjar
  • Ocellated Poorwill
  • Rufous Nightjar
  • Silky-tailed Nightjar

Potoos

  • Great Potoo
  • Long-tailed Potoo
  • Common Potoo

Swifts

  • Sooty Swift
  • Great Dusky Swift
  • White-collared Swift
  • Biscutate Swift
  • Gray-rumped Swift
  • Sick's Swift
  • Short-tailed Swift

Hummingbirds

  • Black Jacobin
  • Buff-bellied Hermit
  • Planalto Hermit
  • Scale-throated Hermit
  • White-vented Violetear
  • White-tailed Goldenthroat
  • Ruby-topaz Hummingbird
  • Black-throated Mango
  • Long-billed Starthroat
  • Blue-tufted Starthroat
  • Amethyst Woodstar
  • Glittering-bellied Emerald
  • Purple-crowned Plovercrest
  • Violet-capped Woodnymph
  • Fork-tailed Woodnymph
  • Swallow-tailed Hummingbird
  • Versicolored Emerald
  • White-throated Hummingbird
  • Sapphire-spangled Emerald
  • Rufous-throated Sapphire
  • Gilded Hummingbird

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Spotted Rail
  • Blackish Rail
  • Plumbeous Rail
  • Ash-throated Crake
  • Paint-billed Crake
  • Uniform Crake
  • Giant Wood-Rail
  • Gray-cowled Wood-Rail
  • Slaty-breasted Wood-Rail
  • Spot-flanked Gallinule
  • Common Gallinule
  • Red-fronted Coot
  • Red-gartered Coot
  • White-winged Coot
  • Purple Gallinule
  • Azure Gallinule
  • Ocellated Crake
  • Russet-crowned Crake
  • Red-and-white Crake
  • Rufous-faced Crake
  • Speckled Rail
  • Yellow-breasted Crake
  • Rufous-sided Crake
  • Gray-breasted Crake

Finfoots

  • Sungrebe

Limpkin

  • Limpkin

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-necked Stilt

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • American Golden-Plover
  • Pied Plover
  • Rufous-chested Dotterel
  • Semipalmated Plover
  • Southern Lapwing
  • Collared Plover

Painted-Snipes

  • South American Painted-Snipe

Jacanas

  • Wattled Jacana

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Upland Sandpiper
  • Hudsonian Whimbrel
  • Hudsonian Godwit
  • Giant Snipe
  • Pantanal Snipe
  • Wilson's Phalarope
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Red Knot
  • Stilt Sandpiper
  • Buff-breasted Sandpiper
  • Sanderling
  • Dunlin
  • Baird's Sandpiper
  • White-rumped Sandpiper
  • Least Sandpiper
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Brown-hooded Gull
  • Gray-hooded Gull
  • Laughing Gull
  • Franklin's Gull
  • Black Skimmer
  • Yellow-billed Tern
  • Large-billed Tern
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Snowy-crowned Tern
  • Common Tern

Flamingos

  • Chilean Flamingo

Grebes

  • White-tufted Grebe
  • Least Grebe
  • Pied-billed Grebe
  • Great Grebe
  • Silvery Grebe

Storks

  • Maguari Stork
  • Jabiru
  • Wood Stork

Anhingas

  • Anhinga

Cormorants and Shags

  • Neotropic Cormorant

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • White-faced Ibis
  • Green Ibis
  • Bare-faced Ibis
  • Plumbeous Ibis
  • Buff-necked Ibis
  • Roseate Spoonbill

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • Rufescent Tiger-Heron
  • Boat-billed Heron
  • Pinnated Bittern
  • Stripe-backed Bittern
  • Least Bittern
  • Black-crowned Night Heron
  • Capped Heron
  • Whistling Heron
  • Little Blue Heron
  • Snowy Egret
  • Striated Heron
  • Western Cattle-Egret
  • Great Egret
  • Cocoi Heron

New World Vultures

  • King Vulture
  • Black Vulture
  • Turkey Vulture
  • Lesser 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
  • Sharp-shinned Hawk
  • Bicolored Hawk
  • Long-winged Harrier
  • Cinereous Harrier
  • Tiny Hawk
  • Rufous-thighed Kite
  • Mississippi Kite
  • Plumbeous Kite
  • Crane Hawk
  • Black-collared Hawk
  • Snail Kite
  • Savanna Hawk
  • Great Black Hawk
  • Chaco Eagle
  • Roadside Hawk
  • Harris's Hawk
  • White-rumped Hawk
  • White-tailed Hawk
  • Black-chested Buzzard-Eagle
  • Gray-lined Hawk
  • Broad-winged Hawk
  • Zone-tailed Hawk
  • Short-tailed Hawk
  • Swainson's Hawk

Barn-Owls

  • American Barn Owl

Owls

  • Tropical Screech-Owl
  • Black-capped Screech-Owl
  • Spectacled Owl
  • Tawny-browed Owl
  • Great Horned Owl
  • Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl
  • Burrowing Owl
  • Mottled Owl
  • Black-banded Owl
  • Rusty-barred Owl
  • Chaco Owl
  • Striped Owl
  • Stygian Owl
  • Short-eared Owl
  • Buff-fronted Owl

Trogons

  • Blue-crowned Trogon
  • Surucua Trogon
  • Atlantic Black-throated Trogon

Motmots

  • Amazonian Motmot
  • Rufous-capped Motmot

Kingfishers

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

Puffbirds

  • Buff-bellied Puffbird
  • White-eared Puffbird
  • Spot-backed Puffbird
  • Rusty-breasted Nunlet

Jacamars

  • Rufous-tailed Jacamar

Toucans

  • Saffron Toucanet
  • Chestnut-eared Aracari
  • Spot-billed Toucanet
  • Toco Toucan
  • Red-breasted Toucan

Woodpeckers

  • White-barred Piculet
  • Ochre-collared Piculet
  • White-wedged Piculet
  • White Woodpecker
  • Yellow-fronted Woodpecker
  • White-fronted Woodpecker
  • White-spotted Woodpecker
  • Checkered Woodpecker
  • Little Woodpecker
  • Robust Woodpecker
  • Crimson-crested Woodpecker
  • Cream-backed Woodpecker
  • Lineated Woodpecker
  • Black-bodied Woodpecker
  • Helmeted Woodpecker
  • Pale-crested Woodpecker
  • Blond-crested Woodpecker
  • Golden-green Woodpecker
  • White-browed Woodpecker
  • Green-barred Woodpecker
  • Campo Flicker

Seriemas

  • Red-legged Seriema
  • Black-legged Seriema

Falcons and Caracaras

  • Laughing Falcon
  • Collared Forest-Falcon
  • Barred Forest-Falcon
  • Spot-winged Falconet
  • Crested Caracara
  • Yellow-headed Caracara
  • Chimango Caracara
  • American Kestrel
  • Aplomado Falcon
  • Bat Falcon
  • Orange-breasted Falcon
  • Peregrine Falcon

Old World Parrots

  • Crimson Rosella
  • Budgerigar
  • Yellow-collared Lovebird

New World and African Parrots

  • Monk Parakeet
  • Plain Parakeet
  • Yellow-chevroned Parakeet
  • Pileated Parrot
  • Scaly-headed Parrot
  • Yellow-faced Parrot
  • Vinaceous-breasted Amazon
  • Turquoise-fronted Amazon
  • Orange-winged Amazon
  • Cobalt-rumped Parrotlet
  • Blaze-winged Parakeet
  • Maroon-bellied Parakeet
  • Green-cheeked Parakeet
  • Hyacinth Macaw
  • Peach-fronted Parakeet
  • Nanday Parakeet
  • Blue-winged Macaw
  • Yellow-collared Macaw
  • Blue-and-yellow Macaw
  • Red-and-green Macaw
  • Blue-crowned Parakeet
  • Red-shouldered Macaw
  • White-eyed Parakeet

Typical Antbirds

  • Spot-backed Antshrike
  • Giant Antshrike
  • Large-tailed Antshrike
  • Tufted Antshrike
  • Great Antshrike
  • Barred Antshrike
  • Rufous-capped Antshrike
  • Rufous-winged Antshrike
  • Bolivian Slaty-Antshrike
  • Variable Antshrike
  • Plain Antvireo
  • Stripe-backed Antbird
  • Black-capped Antwren
  • Large-billed Antwren
  • Rufous-margined Antwren
  • Black-bellied Antwren
  • Rusty-backed Antwren
  • Bertoni's Antbird
  • Dusky-tailed Antbird
  • Streak-capped Antwren
  • Mato Grosso Antbird
  • Western Fire-eye
  • White-shouldered Fire-eye

Crescentchests

  • Collared Crescentchest
  • Olive-crowned Crescentchest

Gnateaters

  • Rufous Gnateater

Antpittas

  • Variegated Antpitta
  • Speckle-breasted Antpitta

Tapaculos

  • Crested Gallito

Antthrushes

  • Short-tailed Antthrush

Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers

  • Rufous-breasted Leaftosser
  • Olivaceous Woodcreeper
  • Plain-winged Woodcreeper
  • Black-banded Woodcreeper
  • Planalto Woodcreeper
  • White-throated Woodcreeper
  • Great Rufous Woodcreeper
  • Lesser Woodcreeper
  • Red-billed Scythebill
  • Black-billed Scythebill
  • Scimitar-billed Woodcreeper
  • Narrow-billed Woodcreeper
  • Scalloped Woodcreeper
  • Atlantic Plain-Xenops
  • Streaked Xenops
  • Chaco Earthcreeper
  • Pale-legged Hornero
  • Rufous Hornero
  • Crested Hornero
  • Sharp-tailed Streamcreeper
  • Wren-like Rushbird
  • Buff-winged Cinclodes
  • Sharp-billed Treehunter
  • Black-capped Foliage-gleaner
  • White-browed Foliage-gleaner
  • Ochre-breasted Foliage-gleaner
  • Buff-browed Foliage-gleaner
  • Russet-mantled Foliage-gleaner
  • Buff-fronted Foliage-gleaner
  • Chestnut-capped Foliage-gleaner
  • Canebrake Groundcreeper
  • White-eyed Foliage-gleaner
  • Rufous-fronted Thornbird
  • Little Thornbird
  • Greater Thornbird
  • Firewood-gatherer
  • Lark-like Brushrunner
  • Short-billed Canastero
  • Sharp-billed Canastero
  • Rusty-backed Spinetail
  • Stripe-crowned Spinetail
  • Olive Spinetail
  • Bay-capped Wren-Spinetail
  • Rufous Cacholote
  • Brown Cacholote
  • Yellow-chinned Spinetail
  • Chotoy Spinetail
  • Ochre-cheeked Spinetail
  • Gray-bellied Spinetail
  • White-lored Spinetail
  • Rufous-capped Spinetail
  • Cinereous-breasted Spinetail
  • Spix's Spinetail
  • Pale-breasted Spinetail
  • Sooty-fronted Spinetail

Manakins

  • Helmeted Manakin
  • Swallow-tailed Manakin
  • White-bearded Manakin
  • Band-tailed Manakin

Cotingas

  • White-tipped Plantcutter
  • Swallow-tailed Cotinga
  • Red-ruffed Fruitcrow
  • Bare-throated Bellbird

Tityras and Allies

  • Black-tailed Tityra
  • Black-crowned Tityra
  • Masked Tityra
  • Greenish Schiffornis
  • White-naped Xenopsaris
  • Green-backed Becard
  • Chestnut-crowned Becard
  • White-winged Becard
  • Crested Becard

Sharpbill

  • Sharpbill

Tyrant Flycatchers

  • Wing-barred Piprites
  • White-throated Spadebill
  • Russet-winged Spadebill
  • Many-colored Rush Tyrant
  • Gray-hooded Flycatcher
  • Sepia-capped Flycatcher
  • Southern Bristle-Tyrant
  • Sao Paulo Bristle-Tyrant
  • Mottle-cheeked Tyrannulet
  • Bay-ringed Tyrannulet
  • Southern Antpipit
  • Eared Pygmy-Tyrant
  • Drab-breasted Pygmy-Tyrant
  • Pearly-vented Tody-Tyrant
  • Ochre-faced Tody-Flycatcher
  • Rusty-fronted Tody-Flycatcher
  • Common Tody-Flycatcher
  • Yellow-olive Flatbill
  • Cliff Flycatcher
  • Southern Beardless-Tyrannulet
  • Suiriri Flycatcher
  • Mouse-colored Tyrannulet
  • Yellow Tyrannulet
  • Bearded Tachuri
  • Sharp-tailed Tyrant
  • Crested Doradito
  • Subtropical Doradito
  • Dinelli's Doradito
  • Warbling Doradito
  • Ticking Doradito
  • Forest Elaenia
  • Gray-headed Elaenia
  • Greenish Elaenia
  • Small-headed Elaenia
  • Yellow-bellied Elaenia
  • Small-billed Elaenia
  • Large Elaenia
  • Olivaceous Elaenia
  • Lesser Elaenia
  • White-crested Elaenia
  • Sooty Tyrannulet
  • White-crested Tyrannulet
  • Straneck's Tyrannulet
  • Greenish Tyrannulet
  • Reiser's Tyrannulet
  • Planalto Tyrannulet
  • Rough-legged Tyrannulet
  • Fulvous-crowned Scrub-Tyrant
  • Greater Wagtail-Tyrant
  • Plain Tyrannulet
  • Bran-colored Flycatcher
  • Euler's Flycatcher
  • Southern Tropical Pewee
  • Fuscous Flycatcher
  • Alder Flycatcher
  • Southern Scrub-Flycatcher
  • Vermilion Flycatcher
  • Austral Negrito
  • Rufous-tailed Tyrant
  • Crested Black-Tyrant
  • Blue-billed Black-Tyrant
  • Cinereous Tyrant
  • White-winged Black-Tyrant
  • Hudson's Black-Tyrant
  • Spectacled Tyrant
  • Yellow-browed Tyrant
  • Dark-faced Ground-Tyrant
  • White-rumped Monjita
  • White Monjita
  • Gray Monjita
  • Black-crowned Monjita
  • Gray-bellied Shrike-Tyrant
  • Lesser Shrike-Tyrant
  • White-headed Marsh Tyrant
  • Black-backed Water-Tyrant
  • Masked Water-Tyrant
  • Shear-tailed Gray Tyrant
  • Streamer-tailed Tyrant
  • Cock-tailed Tyrant
  • Strange-tailed Tyrant
  • Long-tailed Tyrant
  • Large-headed Flatbill
  • Rufous-tailed Attila
  • Sibilant Sirystes
  • Rufous Casiornis
  • Swainson's Flycatcher
  • Short-crested Flycatcher
  • Brown-crested Flycatcher
  • Cattle Tyrant
  • Great Kiskadee
  • Boat-billed Flycatcher
  • Rusty-margined Flycatcher
  • Social Flycatcher
  • Three-striped Flycatcher
  • Streaked Flycatcher
  • Piratic Flycatcher
  • Variegated Flycatcher
  • Crowned Slaty Flycatcher
  • White-throated Kingbird
  • Tropical Kingbird
  • Eastern Kingbird
  • Fork-tailed Flycatcher

Vireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis

  • Rufous-browed Peppershrike
  • Rufous-crowned Greenlet
  • Ashy-headed Greenlet
  • Chivi Vireo

Crows, Jays, and Magpies

  • Azure Jay
  • Purplish Jay
  • Curl-crested Jay
  • Plush-crested Jay

Donacobius

  • Black-capped Donacobius

Swallows

  • Bank Swallow
  • White-winged Swallow
  • White-rumped Swallow
  • Chilean Swallow
  • Purple Martin
  • Gray-breasted Martin
  • Southern Martin
  • Brown-chested Martin
  • Southern Rough-winged Swallow
  • Blue-and-white Swallow
  • Black-collared Swallow
  • Tawny-headed Swallow
  • Barn Swallow
  • Cliff Swallow

Gnatcatchers

  • Masked Gnatcatcher
  • Creamy-bellied Gnatcatcher

Wrens

  • Southern House Wren
  • Grass Wren
  • Thrush-like Wren
  • Buff-breasted Wren
  • Fawn-breasted Wren

Starlings

  • European Starling

Mockingbirds and Thrashers

  • Chalk-browed Mockingbird
  • White-banded Mockingbird

Thrushes and Allies

  • Veery
  • Creamy-bellied Thrush
  • Yellow-legged Thrush
  • Blacksmith Thrush
  • White-necked Thrush
  • Pale-breasted Thrush
  • Rufous-bellied Thrush

Old World Sparrows

  • House Sparrow

Wagtails and Pipits

  • Yellowish Pipit
  • Short-billed Pipit
  • Pampas Pipit
  • Correndera Pipit
  • Ochre-breasted Pipit
  • Hellmayr's Pipit

Finches, Euphonias, and Allies

  • Golden-rumped Euphonia
  • Blue-naped Chlorophonia
  • Purple-throated Euphonia
  • Green-throated Euphonia
  • Violaceous Euphonia
  • Chestnut-bellied Euphonia
  • Hooded Siskin

New World Sparrows

  • Chaco Sparrow
  • Grassland Sparrow
  • Saffron-billed Sparrow
  • Rufous-collared Sparrow

Troupials and Allies

  • Bobolink
  • White-browed Meadowlark
  • Crested Oropendola
  • Solitary Black Cacique
  • Golden-winged Cacique
  • Red-rumped Cacique
  • Epaulet Oriole
  • Variable Oriole
  • Orange-backed Troupial
  • Screaming Cowbird
  • Shiny Cowbird
  • Giant Cowbird
  • Scarlet-headed Blackbird
  • Chopi Blackbird
  • Grayish Baywing
  • Unicolored Blackbird
  • Yellow-winged Blackbird
  • Chestnut-capped Blackbird
  • Saffron-cowled Blackbird
  • Yellow-rumped Marshbird
  • Brown-and-yellow Marshbird

New World Warblers

  • Connecticut Warbler
  • Southern Yellowthroat
  • Tropical Parula
  • Golden-crowned Warbler
  • Flavescent Warbler
  • White-browed Warbler
  • Riverbank Warbler

Cardinals and Allies

  • Hepatic Tanager
  • Red-crowned Ant-Tanager
  • Black-backed Grosbeak
  • Blackish-blue Seedeater
  • Glaucous-blue Grosbeak
  • Ultramarine Grosbeak

Tanagers and Allies

  • Red-crested Cardinal
  • Yellow-billed Cardinal
  • Black-faced Tanager
  • Magpie Tanager
  • White-banded Tanager
  • Hooded Tanager
  • Orange-headed Tanager
  • Chestnut-headed Tanager
  • Gray-throated Warbling Finch
  • Ringed Warbling Finch
  • Black-capped Warbling Finch
  • Black-goggled Tanager
  • Gray-headed Tanager
  • Ruby-crowned Tanager
  • White-lined Tanager
  • Silver-beaked Tanager
  • Diademed Tanager
  • Fawn-breasted Tanager
  • Blue-and-yellow Tanager
  • Sayaca Tanager
  • Palm Tanager
  • Chestnut-backed Tanager
  • Burnished-buff Tanager
  • Green-headed Tanager
  • Swallow Tanager
  • Blue Dacnis
  • Red-legged Honeycreeper
  • Guira Tanager
  • Chestnut-vented Conebill
  • Diuca Finch
  • Uniform Finch
  • Black-crested Finch
  • White-rumped Tanager
  • Long-tailed Reed Finch
  • Black-and-rufous Warbling Finch
  • Saffron Finch
  • Grassland Yellow-Finch
  • Wedge-tailed Grass-Finch
  • Lesser Grass-Finch
  • Great Pampa-Finch
  • Blue-black Grassquit
  • Lined Seedeater
  • White-bellied Seedeater
  • Copper Seedeater
  • Pearly-bellied Seedeater
  • Tawny-bellied Seedeater
  • Dark-throated Seedeater
  • Ibera Seedeater
  • Marsh Seedeater
  • Rufous-rumped Seedeater
  • Chestnut Seedeater
  • Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch
  • Yellow-bellied Seedeater
  • Dubois's Seedeater
  • Double-collared Seedeater
  • Temminck's Seedeater
  • Plumbeous Seedeater
  • Rusty-collared Seedeater
  • Black-masked Finch
  • Red-crested Finch
  • Bananaquit
  • Dull-colored Grassquit
  • Sooty Grassquit
  • Many-colored Chaco Finch
  • Black-throated Saltator
  • Bluish-gray Saltator
  • Green-winged Saltator
  • Golden-billed Saltator
  • Black-throated Grosbeak

Most common birds in Paraguay

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 Paraguay’s regular birds. The list follows the seasons: migrants rise in spring and autumn.

  1. House SparrowPasser domesticus
  2. Great EgretArdea alba
  3. Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
  4. Black-bellied Whistling-DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
  5. Wood StorkMycteria americana
  6. Southern LapwingVanellus chilensis
  7. White-faced Whistling-DuckDendrocygna viduata
  8. Black VultureCoragyps atratus
  9. Wattled JacanaJacana jacana
  10. Great KiskadeePitangus sulphuratus
  11. Snowy EgretEgretta thula
  12. Crested CaracaraCaracara plancus
  13. Tropical KingbirdTyrannus melancholicus
  14. White-tipped DoveLeptotila verreauxi
  15. Saffron FinchSicalis flaveola
  16. Brown-chested MartinProgne tapera
  17. Neotropic CormorantNannopterum brasilianum
  18. Shiny CowbirdMolothrus bonariensis
  19. Rock PigeonColumba livia
  20. Roseate SpoonbillPlatalea ajaja

Largest bird families in Paraguay

Among its regular birds.

  • Tyrant Flycatchers69
  • Tanagers and Allies52
  • Ovenbirds and Woodcreepers45
  • Hawks, Eagles, and Kites25
  • New World and African Parrots21
  • Woodpeckers21
  • Troupials and Allies19
  • Typical Antbirds17

Reported in the last 30 days

520 species reported to eBird in Paraguay in the 30 days to 2026-10-13. The 40 most recently reported:

Boat-billed Flycatcher, Scaled Dove, Bluish-gray Saltator, Yellow-chevroned Parakeet, Creamy-bellied Thrush, Rufous Hornero, Grayish Baywing, Sayaca Tanager, Narrow-billed Woodcreeper, Cobalt-rumped Parrotlet, Striped Cuckoo, House Sparrow, Red-rumped Cacique, Rufous-collared Sparrow, Crowned Slaty Flycatcher, Chotoy Spinetail, Large Elaenia, White-tipped Dove, Great Kiskadee, Lark-like Brushrunner, Crested Hornero, Tropical Kingbird, White-fronted Woodpecker, Blue-and-yellow Tanager, Suiriri Flycatcher, Golden-billed Saltator, Saffron Finch, Red-crested Cardinal, Southern Lapwing, Masked Gnatcatcher, Purple-throated Euphonia, Great Egret, Aplomado Falcon, Yellow-chinned Spinetail, Ash-throated Crake, Yellow-browed Tyrant, Yellow-billed Cardinal, Barn Swallow, Crested Caracara, Wood Stork, …