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The Brazilian Amazon Migratory Bird List

List of North American migratory birds with the Brazilian Amazon in wintering range

Common name

Scientific name

American swallow-tailed kite

Elanoides forficatus

bank swallow

Riparia riparia

baird's sandpiper

Calidris bairdii

barn swallow

Hirundo rustica

blackpoll warbler

Dendroica striata

buff-breasted sandpiper

Tryngites subruficollis

chimney swift

Chaetura pelica

cliff swallow

Hirundo pyrrhonota

common nighthawk

Chordeiles minor

common tern

Sterna hirundo

greater yellowlegs

Tringa melanoleuca

Hudsonian godwit

Limosa haemastica

lesser nighthawk

Chordeiles acutipennis

least sandpiper

Calidris minutilla

American golden plover

Pluvialis dominica

lesser yellowlegs

Tringa flavipes

Mississippi kite

Ictinia mississippiensis

olive sided flycatcher

Contopus cooperi

osprey

Pandion haliaetus

pectoral sandpiper

Calidris melanotos

peregrine falcon

Falco peregrinus

purple martin

Pronge subis

red eyed vireo

Vireo olivaceus

red knot

Calidris canutus

royal tern

Sterna maxima

ruddy turnstone

Arenaria interpres

sanderling

Calidria alba

Sandwich tern

Sterna sandvicensis

sedge wren

Cistothorus palensis

semipalmated sandpiper

Calidris pusilla

semipalmated plover

Charadrius semipalmatus

short-billed dowitcher

Limnodromus griseus

solitary sandpiper

Tringa solitaria

spotted sandpiper

Actitis macularia

stilt sandpiper

Calidris himantopus

Swainson's hawk

Buteo swainsoni

upland sandpiper

Bartramia longicauda

whimbrel

Numenius phaeopus

white rumped sanpiper

Calidris fuscicollis

willet

Catoptrophorus semipalmatus

yellow-billed cuckoo

Coccyzus americanus

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