BOLIVIA SPECIALTY BIRDS LIST
Accessible Species
NEOTROPICS BOLIVIA
| # Species: | 1532 |
| # Excl Vagrants: | 1487 |
| # Endemics: | 21 |
| # Near Endemics: | 130 |
OTHER COUNTRIESIN THE NEOTROPICS
BIRDING LOCALES
DISTRIBUTION CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| E | Endemic | 19 |
| LC | Local | 84 |
| NE | Near Endemic | 98 |
| RR | Restricted Range | 42 |
STATUS CODES
| Code | Description | ## |
| NT | Near Threatened | 41 |
| V | Vulnerable | 25 |
| EN | Endangered | 7 |
| CR | Critically Endangered | 3 |
Species counts in code tables depend on completeness of the data. For some countries or locales, data may not include all species or information on species presence may be incomplete.
List of all specialty birds in the country occurring in locales typically visited by birding tours. Specialties include endemics and globally threatened, vulnerable or endangered. Table indicates whether each species is globally threatened or endangered according to the IUCN and also whether it is migratory, very rare, or accidental in the country. See sidebar for meaning of location codes and symbols associated with common names.*
| 1 | Greater Rhea | Rhea americana | NT | |
| 2 | Hooded Tinamou | Nothocercus nigrocapillus | NE | |
| 3 | Gray Tinamou | Tinamus tao | V | |
| 4 | White-throated Tinamou | Tinamus guttatus | NT | |
| 5 | Huayco Tinamou | Rhynchotus maculicollis | NE | |
| 6 | White-bellied Nothura | Nothura boraquira | LC | |
| 7 | Fulvous Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna bicolor | LC | |
| 8 | Orinoco Goose | Oressochen jubata | NT | |
| 9 | \Silver Teal\ | Spatula versicolor | RR | |
| 10 | /Cinnamon Teal/ | Spatula cyanoptera | LC | |
| 11 | \Red Shoveler\ | Spatula platalea | LC | |
| 12 | Red-faced Guan | Penelope dabbenei | NE | |
| 13 | Yungas Guan | Penelope bridgesi | NE | |
| 14 | White-throated Piping-Guan | Pipile grayi | NT | |
| 15 | Razor-billed Curassow | Mitu tuberosum | NT | |
| 16 | Horned Curassow | Pauxi unicornis | E | CR |
| 17 | Bare-faced Curassow | Crax fasciolata | V | |
| 18 | Stripe-faced Wood-Quail | Odontophorus balliviani | NE | |
| 19 | Long-tailed Ground Dove | Uropelia campestris | NE | |
| 20 | Large-tailed Dove | Leptotila megalura | NE | |
| 21 | Rufous-vented Ground-Cuckoo | Neomorphus geoffroyi | LC | V |
| 22 | Rufous-bellied Nighthawk | Lurocalis rufiventris | RR | |
| 23 | Band-tailed Nighthawk | Nyctiprogne leucopyga | LC | |
| 24 | Silky-tailed Nightjar | Antrostomus sericocaudatus | LC | |
| 25 | Long-tailed Potoo | Nyctibius aethereus | LC | |
| 26 | Oilbird | Steatornis caripensis | LC | |
| 27 | Rothschild's Swift | Cypseloides rothschildi | NE | NT |
| 28 | \Chapman's Swift\ | Chaetura chapmani | LC | |
| 29 | Buff-tailed Sicklebill | Eutoxeres condamini | LC | |
| 30 | White-browed Hermit | Phaethornis stuarti | NE | |
| 31 | Buff-bellied Hermit | Phaethornis subochraceus | NE | |
| 32 | Planalto Hermit | Phaethornis pretrei | RR | |
| 33 | Geoffroy's Daggerbill | Schistes geoffroyi | LC | |
| 34 | Brown Violetear | Colibri delphinae | RR | |
| 35 | &White-vented Violetearl | Colibri serrirostris | RR | |
| 36 | Black-eared Fairy | Heliothryx auritus | LC | |
| 37 | Wedge-tailed Hillstar | Oreotrochilus adela | NE | |
| 38 | Green-tailed Trainbearer | Lesbia nuna | LC | |
| 39 | Scaled Metaltail | Metallura aeneocauda | NE | |
| 40 | Buff-thighed Puffleg | Haplophaedia assimilis | NE | |
| 41 | Blue-capped Puffleg | Eriocnemis glaucopoides | NE | |
| 42 | Black-hooded Sunbeam | Aglaeactis pamela | E | |
| 43 | Gould's Inca | Coeligena inca | NE | |
| 44 | Rufous-booted Racket-tail | Ocreatus addae | NE | |
| 45 | Amethyst Woodstar | Calliphlox amethystina | LC | |
| 46 | Slender-tailed Woodstar | Microstilbon burmeisteri | NE | |
| 47 | Many-spotted Hummingbird | Taphrospilus hypostictus | RR | |
| 48 | Versicolored Emerald | Chrysuronia versicolor | RR | |
| 49 | Rufous-throated Sapphire | Hylocharis sapphirina | LC | |
| 50 | Red-fronted Coot | Fulica rufifrons | RR | |
| 51 | Yellow-breasted Crake | Laterallus flaviventer | LC | |
| 52 | Black Rail | Laterallus jamaicensis | EN | |
| 53 | Pale-winged Trumpeter | Psophia leucoptera | NT | |
| 54 | Diademed Sandpiper-Plover | Phegornis mitchellii | LC | NT |
| 55 | Snowy Plover | Anarhynchus nivosus | NT | |
| 56 | Jameson's Snipe | Gallinago jamesoni | RR | |
| 57 | Fuegian Snipe | Gallinago stricklandii | NT | |
| 58 | Giant Snipe | Gallinago undulata | LC | |
| 59 | |Buff-breasted Sandpiper| | Calidris subruficollis | NT | |
| 60 | /Least Sandpiper/ | Calidris minutilla | LC | |
| 61 | Chilean Flamingo | Phoenicopterus chilensis | NT | |
| 62 | Andean Flamingo | Phoenicoparrus andinus | LC | V |
| 63 | James's Flamingo | Phoenicoparrus jamesi | LC | NT |
| 64 | Titicaca Grebe | Rollandia microptera | NE | EN |
| 65 | \White-faced Ibis\ | Plegadis chihi | RR | |
| 66 | Andean Ibis | Theristicus branickii | LC | NT |
| 67 | Boat-billed Heron | Cochlearius cochlearius | LC | |
| 68 | Agami Heron | Agamia agami | LC | V |
| 69 | Andean Condor | Vultur gryphus | V | |
| 70 | Ornate Hawk-Eagle | Spizaetus ornatus | NT | |
| 71 | Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle | Spizaetus melanoleucus | LC | |
| 72 | Black-and-chestnut Eagle | Spizaetus isidori | EN | |
| 73 | Crested Eagle | Morphnus guianensis | LC | NT |
| 74 | Harpy Eagle | Harpia harpyja | LC | V |
| 75 | Gray-bellied Hawk | Accipiter poliogaster | NT | |
| 76 | Tiny Hawk | Microspizias superciliosus | LC | |
| 77 | \Rufous-thighed Kite\ | Harpagus diodon | LC | |
| 78 | Slender-billed Kite | Helicolestes hamatus | LC | |
| 79 | Solitary Eagle | Buteogallus solitarius | NT | |
| 80 | Chaco Eagle | Buteogallus coronatus | EN | |
| 81 | White-rumped Hawk | Parabuteo leucorrhous | RR | |
| 82 | #Zone-tailed Hawk# | Buteo albonotatus | LC | |
| 83 | Cloud-forest Screech-Owl | Megascops marshalli | NE | NT |
| 84 | Foothill Screech-Owl | Megascops roraimae | RR | |
| 85 | Burrowing Owl | Athene cunicularia | RR | |
| 86 | Rufous-banded Owl | Strix albitarsis | RR | |
| 87 | Stygian Owl | Asio stygius | LC | |
| 88 | Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | LC | |
| 89 | Lanceolated Monklet | Micromonacha lanceolata | LC | |
| 90 | Bronzy Jacamar | Galbula leucogastra | LC | |
| 91 | Versicolored Barbet | Eubucco steerii | NE | |
| 92 | Blue-moustached Barbet | Eubucco versicolor | NE | |
| 93 | Blue-banded Toucanet | Aulacorhynchus coeruleicinctis | NE | |
| 94 | Hooded Mountain-Toucan | Andigena cucullata | NE | |
| 95 | Red-necked Aracari | Pteroglossus bitorquatus | NE | EN |
| 96 | Ocellated Piculet | Picumnus dorbignyanus | RR | |
| 97 | Dot-fronted Woodpecker | Dryobates frontalis | NE | |
| 98 | Ringed Woodpecker | Celeus torquatus | NT | |
| 99 | Slaty-backed Forest-Falcon | Micrastur mirandollei | LC | |
| 100 | \Chimango Caracara\ | Daptrius chimango | RR | |
| 101 | Orange-breasted Falcon | Falco deiroleucus | LC | NT |
| 102 | Andean Parakeet | Bolborhynchus orbygnesius | NE | |
| 103 | Amazonian Parrotlet | Nannopsittaca dachilleae | RR | |
| 104 | Cliff Parakeet** | Myiopsitta luchsi | E | NT |
| 105 | Black-winged Parrot | Hapalopsittaca melanotis | NE | |
| 106 | Tucuman Amazon | Amazona tucumana | NE | V |
| 107 | Turquoise-fronted Amazon | Amazona aestiva | NT | |
| 108 | White-bellied Parrot | Pionites leucogaster | V | |
| 109 | Blue-headed Macaw | Primolius couloni | V | |
| 110 | Blue-throated Macaw | Ara glaucogularis | E | CR |
| 111 | Military Macaw | Ara militaris | V | |
| 112 | Red-fronted Macaw | Ara rubrogenys | E | CR |
| 113 | Yellow-rumped Antwren | Euchrepomis sharpei | NE | EN |
| 114 | Rufous-capped Antshrike | Thamnophilus ruficapillus | RR | |
| 115 | Chestnut-backed Antshrike | Thamnophilus palliatus | RR | |
| 116 | Upland Antshrike | Thamnophilus aroyae | NE | |
| 117 | Rufescent Antshrike | Thamnistes rufescens | NE | |
| 118 | Plain-throated Antwren | Isleria hauxwelli | LC | |
| 119 | Rio Madeira Stipplethroat | Epinecrophylla amazonica | NE | |
| 120 | Ashy Antwren | Myrmotherula grisea | NE | |
| 121 | Leaden Antwren | Myrmotherula assimilis | RR | |
| 122 | Large-billed Antwren | Herpsilochmus longirostris | NE | |
| 123 | Black-bellied Antwren | Formicivora melanogaster | RR | |
| 124 | Brownish-headed Antbird | Myrmelastes brunneiceps | NE | |
| 125 | Ash-throated Gnateater | Conopophaga peruviana | LC | |
| 126 | Slaty Gnateater | Conopophaga ardesiaca | NE | |
| 127 | Stripe-headed Antpitta | Grallaria andicolus | NE | |
| 128 | White-throated Antpitta | Grallaria albigula | RR | |
| 129 | Puno Antpitta | Grallaria sinaensis | NE | |
| 130 | Bolivian Antpitta | Grallaria cochabambae | E | |
| 131 | Rufous-faced Antpitta | Grallaria erythrotis | NE | |
| 132 | Masked Antpitta | Hylopezus auricularis | E | V |
| 133 | Ochre-breasted Antpitta | Grallaricula flavirostris | NT | |
| 134 | Rusty-belted Tapaculo | Liosceles thoracicus | LC | |
| 135 | Puna Tapaculo | Scytalopus simonsi | NE | |
| 136 | Diademed Tapaculo | Scytalopus schulenbergi | NE | |
| 137 | Trilling Tapaculo | Scytalopus parvirostris | NE | |
| 138 | Bolivian Tapaculo | Scytalopus bolivianus | NE | |
| 139 | Gray-throated Leaftosser | Sclerurus albigularis | NT | |
| 140 | Long-billed Woodcreeper | Nasica longirostris | RR | |
| 141 | Ocellated Woodcreeper | Xiphorhynchus ocellatus | RR | |
| 142 | Point-tailed Palmcreeper | Berlepschia rikeri | LC | |
| 143 | Bolivian Earthcreeper | Tarphonomus harterti | NE | |
| 144 | Wren-like Rushbird | Phleocryptes melanops | LC | |
| 145 | Bolivian Recurvebill | Syndactyla striata | NE | |
| 146 | Rufous-backed Treehunter | Thripadectes scrutator | NE | |
| 147 | Eastern Woodhaunter | Automolus subulatus | LC | |
| 148 | Brown-capped Tit-Spinetail | Leptasthenura fuliginiceps | NE | |
| 149 | Spot-breasted Thornbird | Phacellodomus maculipectus | NE | |
| 150 | Berlepsch's Canastero | Asthenes berlepschi | E | NT |
| 151 | Line-fronted Canastero | Asthenes urubambensis | NE | NT |
| 152 | Scribble-tailed Canastero | Asthenes maculicauda | RR | |
| 153 | Streak-backed Canastero | Asthenes wyatti | RR | |
| 154 | Streak-throated Canastero | Asthenes humilis | NE | |
| 155 | Black-throated Thistletail | Asthenes harterti | E | |
| 156 | Maquis Canastero | Asthenes heterura | NE | |
| 157 | Orange-fronted Plushcrown | Metopothrix aurantiaca | LC | |
| 158 | Beni Softtail | Thripophaga dimorpha | E | |
| 159 | Light-crowned Spinetail | Cranioleuca albiceps | NE | |
| 160 | Yungas Manakin | Chiroxiphia boliviana | NE | |
| 161 | White-bearded Manakin | Manacus manacus | LC | |
| 162 | Band-tailed Fruiteater | Pipreola intermedia | NE | |
| 163 | Palkachupa Cotinga** | Phibalura boliviana | E | EN |
| 164 | Plum-throated Cotinga | Cotinga maynana | LC | |
| 165 | Scimitar-winged Piha | Lipaugus uropygialis | NE | V |
| 166 | \White-naped Xenopsaris\ | Xenopsaris albinucha | LC | |
| 167 | Chestnut-crowned Becard | Pachyramphus castaneus | LC | |
| 168 | Pink-throated Becard | Pachyramphus minor | LC | |
| 169 | Many-colored Rush Tyrant | Tachuris rubrigastra | LC | |
| 170 | Olive-striped Flycatcher | Mionectes galbinus | RR | |
| 171 | Cinnamon-faced Tyrannulet | Phylloscartes parkeri | NE | |
| 172 | Hazel-fronted Pygmy-Tyrant | Pseudotriccus simplex | NE | |
| 173 | Yungas Tody-Tyrant | Hemitriccus spodiops | NE | |
| 174 | Black-throated Tody-Tyrant | Hemitriccus granadensis | LC | |
| 175 | Buff-throated Tody-Tyrant | Hemitriccus rufigularis | RR | NT |
| 176 | Fulvous-breasted Flatbill | Rhynchocyclus fulvipectus | LC | |
| 177 | Ochraceous-breasted Flycatcher | Nephelomyias ochraceiventris | NE | |
| 178 | Yellow Tyrannulet | Capsiempis flaveola | LC | |
| 179 | Sharp-tailed Tyrant | Culicivora caudacuta | LC | V |
| 180 | Mottle-backed Elaenia | Elaenia gigas | LC | |
| 181 | Yungas Tyrannulet | Phyllomyias weedeni | NE | V |
| 182 | Red-billed Tyrannulet | Zimmerius cinereicapilla | LC | V |
| 183 | Bolivian Tyrannulet | Zimmerius bolivianus | NE | |
| 184 | Unadorned Flycatcher | Myiophobus inornatus | NE | |
| 185 | Olive Flycatcher | Mitrephanes olivaceus | NE | |
| 186 | /Olive-sided Flycatcher/ | Contopus cooperi | NT | |
| 187 | Southern Tropical Pewee | Contopus cinereus | LC | |
| 188 | Taczanowski's Ground-Tyrant | Muscisaxicola griseus | NE | |
| 189 | White-fronted Ground-Tyrant | Muscisaxicola albifrons | RR | |
| 190 | \White-browed Ground-Tyrant\ | Muscisaxicola albilora | RR | |
| 191 | Rufous-webbed Bush-Tyrant | Cnemarchus rufipennis | LC | |
| 192 | White-tailed Shrike-Tyrant | Agriornis albicauda | LC | V |
| 193 | Rufous-bellied Bush-Tyrant | Myiotheretes fuscorufus | NE | |
| 194 | Streamer-tailed Tyrant | Gubernetes yetapa | LC | |
| 195 | Cock-tailed Tyrant | Alectrurus tricolor | LC | V |
| 196 | Golden-browed Chat-Tyrant | Silvicultrix pulchella | NE | |
| 197 | Maroon-belted Chat-Tyrant | Ochthoeca thoracica | NE | |
| 198 | Long-tailed Tyrant | Colonia colonus | LC | |
| 199 | Cinnamon Attila | Attila cinnamomeus | LC | |
| 200 | Three-striped Flycatcher | Conopias trivirgatus | LC | |
| 201 | Sulphury Flycatcher | Tyrannopsis sulphurea | LC | |
| 202 | \Gray-eyed Greenlet\ | Hylophilus amaurocephalus | E | |
| 203 | Ashy-headed Greenlet | Hylophilus pectoralis | LC | |
| 204 | White-collared Jay | Cyanolyca viridicyanus | NE | NT |
| 205 | (White-rumped Swallow) | Tachycineta leucorrhoa | LC | |
| 206 | Tawny-faced Gnatwren | Microbates cinereiventris | RR | |
| 207 | Fulvous Wren | Cinnycerthia fulva | NE | |
| 208 | Musician Wren | Cyphorhinus arada | LC | |
| 209 | White-eared Solitaire | Entomodestes leucotis | NE | |
| 210 | Unicolored Thrush | Turdus haplochrous | E | NT |
| 211 | Puna Pipit | Anthus brevirostris | RR | |
| 212 | Correndera Pipit | Anthus correndera | LC | |
| 213 | Hellmayr's Pipit | Anthus hellmayri | RR | |
| 214 | Moss-backed Sparrow | Arremon doribnii | NE | |
| 215 | Black-faced Brushfinch | Atlapetes melanolaemus | NE | |
| 216 | Bolivian Brushfinch | Atlapetes rufinucha | E | |
| 217 | Fulvous-headed Brushfinch | Atlapetes fulviceps | NE | |
| 218 | Red-breasted Meadowlark | Leistes militaris | RR | |
| 219 | Dusky-green Oropendola | Psarocolius atrovirens | NE | |
| 220 | Green Oropendola | Psarocolius viridis | LC | |
| 221 | Southern Mountain Cacique | Cacicus chrysonotus | NE | |
| 222 | Red-rumped Cacique | Cacicus haemorrhous | LC | |
| 223 | Casqued Cacique | Cacicus oseryi | RR | |
| 224 | Beni Grackle** | Lampropsar boliviensis | E | |
| 225 | Bolivian Blackbird | Oreopsar bolivianus | E | |
| 226 | Yellow-winged Blackbird | Agelasticus thilius | RR | |
| 227 | Chestnut-capped Blackbird | Chrysomus ruficapillus | LC | |
| 228 | Yungas Warbler | Basileuterus punctipectus | NE | |
| 229 | Cuzco Warbler | Myiothlypis chrysogaster | NE | |
| 230 | Brown-capped Redstart | Myioborus brunniceps | NE | |
| 231 | Rose-breasted Chat | Granatellus pelzelni | LC | |
| 232 | Yellow-billed Cardinal | Paroaria capitata | RR | |
| 233 | Slaty Tanager | Creurgops dentatus | NE | |
| 234 | Orange-browed Hemispingus | Kleinothraupis calophrys | NE | |
| 235 | Inti Tanager | Heliothraupis oneilli | NE | |
| 236 | \White-lined Tanager\ | Tachyphonus rufus | RR | |
| 237 | Chestnut-bellied Mountain Tanager | Dubusia castaneoventris | NE | |
| 238 | Rufous-bellied Mountain Tanager | Pseudosaltator rufiventris | NE | |
| 239 | Golden-collared Tanager | Iridosornis jelskii | NE | |
| 240 | Silvery Tanager | Stilpnia viridicollis | RR | |
| 241 | Green-capped Tanager | Stilpnia meyerdeschauenseei | NE | NT |
| 242 | Burnished-buff Tanager | Stilpnia cayana | LC | |
| 243 | Blue-browed Tanager | Tangara cyanotis | LC | |
| 244 | Golden-eared Tanager | Tangara chrysotis | LC | |
| 245 | Red-legged Honeycreeper | Cyanerpes cyaneus | LC | |
| 246 | Giant Conebill | Conirostrum binghami | NT | |
| 247 | White-browed Conebill | Conirostrum ferrugineiventre | NE | |
| 248 | Moustached Flowerpiercer | Diglossa mystacalis | NE | |
| 249 | Gray-bellied Flowerpiercer | Diglossa carbonaria | E | |
| 250 | Peruvian Sierra Finch | Phrygilus punensis | NE | |
| 251 | Short-tailed Finch | Idiopsar brachyurus | LC | |
| 252 | &Slaty Finchl | Haplospiza rustica | LC | |
| 253 | Black-crested Finch | Lophospingus pusillus | LC | |
| 254 | Gray-crested Finch | Lophospingus griseocristatus | NE | |
| 255 | Drab Hemispingus | Pseudospingus xanthophthalmus | NE | |
| 256 | Long-tailed Reed Finch | Donacospiza albifrons | LC | |
| 257 | Bolivian Warbling Finch | Poospiza boliviana | NE | |
| 258 | Rusty-browed Warbling Finch | Poospiza erythrophrys | NE | |
| 259 | Black-and-chestnut Warbling Finch | Poospiza whitii | NE | |
| 260 | Cochabamba Mountain-Finch | Poospiza garleppi | E | NT |
| 261 | Three-striped Hemispingus | Poospiza trifasciatus | NE | |
| 262 | Rufous-sided Warbling Finch | Poospizopsis hypochondria | NE | |
| 263 | Citron-headed Yellow-Finch | Sicalis luteocephala | NE | |
| 264 | Black-and-tawny Seedeater | Sporophila nigrorufa | NE | V |
| 265 | \Dark-throated Seedeater\ | Sporophila ruficollis | NT | |
| 266 | \Rufous-rumped Seedeater\ | Sporophila hypochroma | NT | |
| 267 | Wing-barred Seedeater | Sporophila americana | RR | |
| 268 | Plain-colored Seedeater | Catamenia inornata | LC | |
| 269 | Paramo Seedeater | Catamenia homochroa | LC | NT |
| 270 | Black-masked Finch | Coryphaspiza melanotis | V |
*Nomenclature and taxonomic affinities are based on Clements 6th Edition published 2007 with updates through 2021 maintained by the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, which relies largely on the AOU and SACC nomenclature committees. IUCN status may reflect splits not currently recognized by Clements.
**Species not accepted by Clements, AOU, or SACC that we recognize based on the IOC, field observations along with geographical separation, consensus opinions of field guide authors, and other sources. These species are potential splits in future Clements updates.