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Bird photographs, Latin America                 (all images © Mark Chappell) Species are listed in approximate taxonomic order -- at least as we used to understand it.   A new view is quite different.

Ratites     Darwin's rhea   Penguins     Magellanic penguins Loons, grebes     Great grebe     White-tufted grebe Herons, ibis, storks, spoonbill     Black-faced ibis     zigzag heron     fasciated tiger-heron     rufescent tiger-heron     cocoi heron     striated heron     sunbittern Pelicaniform birds     Anhinga     red-legged cormorant Ducks and geese     Ashy-headed geese     Upland geese     Andean goose     Orinoco goose     Coscoroba swan     Black-necked swan     Speckled teal     Bronze-winged duck     Red shoveler     Chiloe wigeon     Crested duck     Flying steamer-duck     Torrent duck     muscovy duck     Andean ruddy duck     Andean teal     Puna teal     yellow-billed pintail     white-cheeked pintail     White-faced whistling duck     Black-bellied whistling duck Flamingos     Chilean flamingo Rails and coots, hoatzin     White-winged coot     Red-gartered coot     plumbeous rail     Andean coot     hoatzin Gulls and terns     Brown-hooded gull     Dolphin gull     Belcher's gull     Kelp gull     Andean gull Plovers     Southern lapwing     pied lapwing     Andean lapwing Shorebirds     Magellanic oystercatcher     Least seedsnipe     Wattled jacana Guans, chachalacas     Colombian chachalaca     speckled chachalaca     Cauca guan     Andean guan     pale-winged trumpeter Hawks and falcons     Black vulture     Andean condor     Snail kite     Black-chested buzzard-eagle     Southern crested caracara     Yellow-headed caracara     Chimango caracara     black hawk-eagle     roadside hawk     white hawk     white-throated hawk     black-and-chestnut eagle     semi-collared hawk     barred forest-falcon     Aplomado falcon     Bat falcon Owls     Spectacled owl     Austral pigmy owl

Pigeons and relatives     Eared dove     Ruddy ground-dove     Pale-vented pigeon     plumbeous pigeon     band-tailed pigeon     spot-winged pigeon Toucans     Emerald toucanet     Keel-billed toucan     Collared aracari     gray-breasted mountain-toucan Cuckoos     Squirrel cuckoo Nightjars     Common nighthawk     sand-colored nightjar     oscillated poorwill     great potoo     common potoo     paraque     lyre-tailed nightjar Kingfishers     Ringed kingfisher     Amazon kingfisher     Green kingfisher     American pygmy kingfisher Motmots, trogons, jacamars     Black-throated trogon     Violaceous trogon     Slaty-tailed trogon     Blue-crowned motmot     Broad-billed motmot     Andean motmot     black-tailed trogon     crested quetzal     golden-headed quetzal     collared trogon     great jacamar     bluish-fronted jacamar Woodpeckers, barbets     Crimson-crested woodpecker     Lineated woodpecker     Magellanic woodpecker     Red-capped woodpecker     Andean flicker     crimson-mantled woodpecker     chestnut woodpecker     red-necked woodpecker     crimson-bellied woodpecker     versicolored barbet     red-headed barbet Parrots     Orange-chinned parakeet     Austral parakeet     Spectacled parrotlet     Scarlet-fronted parakeet Hummingbirds and swifts     fork-tailed palm swift     amethyst-throated sunangel     Andean emerald     bearded mountaineer     black-tailed trainbearer     black-thighed puffleg     black-throated mango     booted racket-tail     brown violet-ear     buff-tailed coronet     buffy helmetcrest     buff-winged starfrontlet     Collared Inca     crowned woodnymph     empress brilliant     fawn-breasted brilliant     golden-breasted puffleg     great sapphirewing     green hermit     greenish puffleg     long-tailed sylph     many-spotted hummingbird     mountain velvetbreast     purple-bibbed whitetip     purple-throated woodstar     rainbow-bearded thornbill     rufous-capped thornbill     rufous-tailed hummingbird

shining sunbeam     sparkling violet-ear     speckled hummingbird     steely-vented hummingbird     tourmaline sunangel     tyrian metaltail     velvet-purple coronet     violet-crowned brilliant     violet-tailed sylph     viridian metaltail     western emerald     white-belled woodstar     white-necked jacobin     white-tailed hillstar     wire-crested thorntail     Garden emerald     Rufous-tailed hummingbird     Blue-chested hummingbird     Costa Rican hummingbirds Puffbirds, cotingas, furnariids     black-fronted nunbird     Andean cock-of-the-rock     red-crested cotinga     red-ruffed fruitcrow     green-and-black fruiteater     striated antbird     white-browed antbird     white-flanked antbird     yellow-bellied warbling antbird     plain-throated antwren     dot-winged antwren     black-spotted bare-eye     brown-banded antpitta     bicolored antpitta     chestnut-crowned antpitta     slate-crowned antpitta     red-and-white antpitta     tawny antpitta     buff-throated foliage-gleaner     strong-billed woodcreeper     black-billed treehunter     streak-throated canastero     rusty-fronted canastero     white-browed tit-spinetail     puna tapaculo     Bar-crested antshrike     Uniform antshrike     Rusty-winged barbtail     Spotted barbtail     Austral negrito     Thorn-tailed rayadito     stout-billed cinclodes     bar-winged cinclodes     dark-bellied cinclodes     black-throated huet-huet     Long-billed gnatwren     Fasciated antshrike     Slaty antshrike     Plain-brown woodcreeper     Black-capped tityra New-world flycatchers     Smoke-colored pewee     social flycatcher     McConnell's flycatcher     gray-capped flycatcher     ochraceous-breasted flycatcher     cinnamon flycatcher     ornate flycatcher     torrent tyrannulet     long-tailed tyrant     Pied water-tyrant     Golden-crowned flycatcher     Golden-faced tyrannulet     marble-faced bristle-tyrant     streaked flycatcher     tropical kingbird     common tody-flycatcher     ash-breasted tit-tyrant     cinereous ground-tyrant     brown-backed chat-tyrant     white-browed chat-tyrant     many-colored rush-tyrant     streak-throated bush-tyrant     rufous-breasted chat-tyrant     white-winged black tyrant     rufous-bellied bush-tyrant     highland elania     tufted tit-tyrant     Boat-billed flycatcher     Lesser kiskadee     Rusty-margined flycatcher     Yellow tyrannulet     Lesser elania      White-crested elania      Streaked flycatcher     Fire-eyed diucon     White-winged becard

Swallows, jays, donacobius     Mangrove swallow     Gray-breasted martin     violaceous jay     Inca jay     black-capped donacobius Honeycreepers     Green honeycreeper     Shining honeycreeper     Red-legged honeycreeper Wrens, dippers     Southern house wren     Gray-breasted woodwren     White-capped dipper Thrushes, bluebirds, and pipits     Clay-colored robin     Austral thrush     Hauxwell's thrush     Andean solitaire     chiguanco thrush     great thrush     Correndera pipit Vireos and wood warblers     Yellow-green vireo     Rufous-capped warbler     slate-throated redstart     golden-fronted whitestart     three-striped warbler     tropical parula     Canada warbler     Bananaquit Finches and sparrows     buff-throated saltator     Lesser goldfinch, tropical form     Patagonian sierra-finch     Gray-hooded sierra-finch     saffron finch     slaty brush-finch     gray-browed brush-finch     yellow-breasted bush-finch     white-naped bush-finch     plumbeous sierra-finch     golden-billed saltator     greenish yellowfinch     rufous-collared sparrow     Yellow-bellied seedeater Tanagers     bay-headed tanager     Black-capped tanager     blue-capped tanager     blue-gray tanager     blue-necked tanager     blue-winged mountain-tanager     common bush-tanager     crimson-backed tanager     flame-rumped tanager     Fawn-breasted tanager     Gold-ring tanager     golden-collared tanager     golden tanager     golden-eared tanager     golden-naped tanager     hooded mountain tanager     lemon-rumped tanager     Multicolored tanager     orange-eared tanager     palm tanager     paradise tanager     purplish-mantled tanager     rust-and-yellow tanager     saffron-crowned tanager     scarlet-bellied mountain tanager     scrub tanager     silver-beaked tanager     silver-throated tanager     spotted tanager     summer tanager     turquoise tanager     black flowerpiercer     black-throated flowerpiercer     bluish flowerpiercer     chestnut-breasted flowerpiercer     masked flowerpiercer     rusty flowerpiercer     orange-bellied euphonia     blue-naped chlorophonia     magpie tanager     Golden-hooded tanager     Gray-headed tanager     Crimson-backed tanager     Thick-billed euphonia Orioles, blackbirds     Long-tailed meadowlark     Chestnut-headed oropendula     epaulet oriole     crested oropendola     russet-backed oropendola     yellow-rumped cacique