Why keep a list of creatures?
Because it is very good way to get an appreciation of the many creatures that we see on our Amazon cruise and a great way to understand the great diversity of wildlife found in the Amazon. By marking off what was observed, you have a permanent record. Lists help you remember. You would be surprised how some of the most unforgettable sights are easily forgotten! If you take one of our expedition cruises you will find these lists waiting for you in your cabin on the Motor Yacht Tucano!
Our site has three different lists of Amazon Creatures. Each is sorted differently for different uses. This page has a list of common names of Amazon flora and fauna. It is sorted alphabetically so that it is easy to make a checklist. There are bird species as well as short listing of mammals and reptiles. Please note that this is by no means an exhaustive list of creatures found in the Amazon, but rather a record of some of the creatures we observed on our cruises. When you see something new on one of our cruises, we'll add it to the list!
For more detailed research, our site has more lists that include scientific names. Please follow the links below.
- Bird List of Scientific and Common Names: This list is sorted by family names, and includes common names
- Plant List of Scientific and Common Names: This list is sorted by family name.
Birds, Mammals, and Reptiles (Sorted Alphabetically)
Bird List
Agami/Chestnut Bellied Heron
Amazon Kingfisher
Amazonian Umbrella Bird
Amazonian Antshrike
American Kestrel
Anhinga
Aplomado Falcon
Ash-breasted Antbird
Ashy-headed Greenlet
Azure Gallinule
Bananaquit
Band-tailed Manakin
Band-tailed Nighthawk
Band-tailed Antbird
Band-rumped Swift
Bank Swallow
Bare-necked Fruitcrow
Bare-faced Ibis
Bare-faced Curassow
Barn Swallow
Barn Owl
Barred Antshrike
Bat Falcon
Bay-winged Cowbird
Bicolored Conebill
Black-shouldered Kite
Black-spotted Barbet
Black-tailed Tityra
Black-necked Aracari
Black-necked Stilt
Black-headed Antbird
Black Collared Hawk
Black-headed Antbird
Black-throated Saltator
Black-throated Mango
Black-tailed Trogon
Black Hawk Eagle
Black Skimmer
Black Vulture
Black Nunbird
Black Caracara
Black-fronted Nunbird
Black-bellied Whistling Duck
Black-crowned Night Heron
Black-crested Antshrike
Black-eared Fairy
Black-capped Becard
Black-chinned Antbird
Black-faced Antthrush
Black-capped Donacobius
Blackish-gray Antshrike
Blue-throated Piping Guan
Blue-winged Macaw
Blue Dacnis
Blue-headed Parrot
Blue Ground Dove
Blue-and-yellow Macaw
Blue-chinned Sapphire
Blue-black Grassquit
Blue-gray Tanager
Blue-crowned Motmot
Blue-and-white Swallow
Blue-crowned Trogon
Boat-billed Flycatcher
Boat-billed Heron
Brazilian Duck
Bright-rumped Attila
Brown-crested Flycatcher
Brown-chested Martin
Buff-bellied Hermit
Buff-browed Chachalaca
Buff-throated Foliage Gleaner
Buff-breasted Wren
Buff-necked Ibis
Buff-chested Greenlet
Buff-throated Saltator
Burrowing Owl
Caica Parrot
Campo Flicker
Canary-wingedParakeet-split new spe
Capped Heron
Cattle Egret
Cattle Tyrant
Chaco Chachalaca
Chalk-browed Mockingbird
Channel-billed Toucan
Chapman’s Swift
Chestnut-eared Aracari
Chestnut-fronted Macaw
Chestnut-bellied Seedeater
Chestnut-bellied Guan
Chestnut-vented Conebill
Chimney Swift
Chopi Blackbird
Cinereous-breasted Spinetail
Cinereous Tinamou
Cinereous Antshrike
Cinnamon Attila
Cinnamon-crested Spadebill
Cinnamon-throated Hermit
Cinnamon-throated Woodcreeper
Cliff Flycatcher
Coal-crested Finch
Collared Forest Falcon
Collared Gnatwren
Collared Plover
Common Ground-dove
Common Potoo
Coraya Wren
Crane Hawk
Cream-colored Woodpecker
Creamy-bellied Thrush
Crested Becard
Crested Black Tyrant
Crested Eagle
Crested Owl
Crested Caracara
Crested Oropendola
Crimson Topaz
Crimson-crested Woodpecker
Curl-crested Jay
Double Collard Seedeater
Double Toothed Kite
Drab Water Tyrant
Dusky Antbird
Dusky-capped Greenlet
Dusky-billed Woodcreeper
Dusky Parrot
Dusky-throated Antshrike
Dusky-throated Hermit
Epalet Oriole
Fasciated Antshrike
Ferruginous Pygmy Owl
Festive Parrot
Flame-crested Tanager
Flavescent Warbler
Forest Elaenia
Fork-tailed Flycatcher
Fork-tailed Palm Swift
Fork-tailed Woodnymph
Fulvous-crested Tanager
Fulvous Whistling Duck
Giant Cowbird
Glittering-throated Emerald
Golden-collared Woodpecker
Golden-bellied Euphonia
Golden-headed Manakin
Golden-spangled Piculet
Golden Collard Macaw
Golden Parakeet
Golden-winged Parakeet
Grassland Sparrow
Gray-breasted Sabrewing
Gray-chested Greenlet
Gray-breasted Martin
Gray-crowned Flycatcher
Gray-fronted Dove
Gray Monjita
Gray Hawk
Gray Antbird
Gray Antwren
Gray Rumped Swift
Gray-winged Trumpeter
Gray-headed Kite
Gray-headed Tanager
Gray-necked Wood-Rail
Grayish Mourner
Grayish Saltator
Great Jacamar
Great Kiskadee
Great Horned Owl
Great Tinamou
Great Rhea
Great Dusky Swift
Great Egret
Great Black Hawk
Great Antshrike
Greater Ani
Greater Thornbird
Greater Yellow-headed Vulture
Green-tailed Jacamar
Green-winged Saltator
Green-tailed Goldenthroat
Green-and-rufous Kingfisher
Green Kingfisher
Green Honeycreeper
Green Ibis
Guilded Sapphire
Guira Cukoo
Guira Tanager
Harpy Eagle
Helmeted Manakin
Helmeted Pygmy Tyrant
Hoatzin
Hooded Tanager
Horned Screamer
House Wren
Hyacinth Macaw
Jabiru Stork
King Vulture
Klage’s Antwren
Ladder-tailed Nightjar
Large-billed Tern
Laterallus sp.
Laughing Falcon
Laughing Hawk
Leaden Antwren
Least Bittern
Lesser Kiskadee
Lesser Seedfinch
Lesser Swallow-tailed Swift
Lesser Yellow-headed Vulture
Lesson’s Seedeater
Lettered Aracari
Limpkin
Lineated Woodpecker
Lined Forest Falcon
Little Tinamou
Little Woodpecker
Little Cukoo
Long-tailed Hermit
Long-billed Woodcreeper
Long-tailed Tyrant
Long-billed Gnatwren
Long-tailed Ground Dove
Macconnelis Flycatcher
Magpie Tanager
Maguari Stork
Marbled Woodquail
Marial Guan
Masked Yellow-throat
Masked Gnatcatcher
Masked Tityra
Matto Grosso Antbird
Monk Parakeet
Mouse-coloured Antshrike
Moustached Wren
Muscovy Duck
Musician Wren
Nacunda Nighthawk
Narrow-billed Woodcreeper
Neotropic Cormorant
Olivaceous Woodcreeper
Olive Oropendola
Olive-backed Foliage Gleaner
Opal-rumped Tanager
Orange-fronted Yellow-Finch
Orange-cheeked Parrot
Orange-winged Parrot
Oriole Blackbird
Ornate Hawk Eagle
Osprey
Painted Parakeet
Painted Tody Flycatcher
Pale-tipped Tyrannulet
Pale-vented Pigeon
Pale-legged Hornero
Palm Tanager
Paradise Jacamar
Paradise Tanager
Paraque
Peach-fronted Parakeet
Pearl Kite
Pectoral Sandpiper
Pectoral Sparrow
Peregrine Falcon
Picazuro Pigeon
Picui Ground Dove
Pied Puffbird
Pied Water Tyrant
Pied Lapwing
Piratic Flycatcher
Plain-throated Antwren
Plain-crowned Spinetail
Plain Antvireo
Plain-brown Woodcreeper
Plain Xenops
Plumbeous Pigeon
Plumbeous Ibis
Plumbeous Kite
Pompadour Cotinga
Purple-throated Euphonia
Purple Martin
Purple Honeycreeper
Purple Gallinule
Purplish Jay
Pygmy Antwren
Pygmy Kingfisher
Razor-billed Curassow
Red-eyed Vireo
Red-fan Parrot
Red-crested Finch
Red-headed Manakin
Red-legged Honeycreeper
Red-crested Cardinal
Red-capped Cardinal
Red-and-Green Macaw
Red-billed Pied Tanager
Red-billed Sythebill
Red-breasted Blackbird
Red-lored Parrot
Red-necked Aracari
Red-shouldered Macaw
Red-stained Woodpecker
Red-throated Caracara
Red-rumped Cacique
Red-necked Woodpecker
Red-legged Seriema
Reddish Hermit
Ringed Kingfisher
Ringed Antpipit
Roadside Hawk
Rose-breasted Chat
Roseate Spoonbill 9 ad. 3 juv.
Royal Flycatcher
Ruddy Pigeon
Ruddy Ground Dove
Ruddy-tailed Flycatcher
Ruddy Spinetail
Rudy Quail Dove
Rufescent Tiger Heron
Rufous-rumped Foliage Gleaner
Rufous-fronted Thornbird
Rufous-tailed Jacamar
Rufous-bellied Thrush
Rufous-breasted Hermit
Rufous-browed Pepper-shrike
Rufous-throated Sapphire
Rufous Nightjar
Rufous-capped Anttrush
Rufous-tailed Foliage Gleaner
Rufous Collard Sparrow
Rufous-throated Antbird
Rufous Hornero
Rusty-margined Flycatcher
Rusty-margined Guan
Rusty Collard Seedeater
Rusty-fronted Tody Flycatcher
Rusty-backed Spinetail
Rusty-backed Antwren
Saffron Finch
Saffron-crested Tyrant- Manakin
Sapphire-rumped Parrotlet
Savannah Hawk
Sayaca Tanager
Scaled Pigeon
Scaled Dove
Scaly-headed Parrot
Scarlet Macaw
Screaming Piha
Shiny Cowbird
Short-tailed Swift
Short-tailed Nighthawk
Short-crested Flycatcher
Short-tailed Hawk
Silver-beaked Tanager
Sirystes
Slate-headed Tody Flycatcher
Slate-coloured Grosbeak
Slate-colored Hawk
Slaty-capped Shrike Vireo
Slaty Antshrike
Slender-billed Kite
Slender-footed Tyrannulet
Smooth-billed Ani
Snail Kite
Snowy Egret
Social Flycatcher
Solitary black Cacique
Solitary Sandpiper
Southern Rough-winged Swallow
Southern Lapwing
Southern Beardless Tyrannulet
Southern Screamer
Spangled Cotinga
Speckled Spinetail
Spinetail Chotey
Spixs Woodcreeper
Spot-breasted Woodpecker
Spot-throated Woodcreeper
Spotted Tanager
Spotted Sandpiper (nuptial plumage)
Spotted Tody Flycatcher
Spotted Antpitta
Squirrel Cuckoo
Stipple-throated Antwren
Straight-billed Woodcreeper
Straight-billed Hermit
Streaked Flycatcher
Striated Heron
Stripe-tailed Yellow-Finch
Striped Cukoo
Stygian Owl
Sunbittern
Sungrebe
Swallow-tailed Hummingbird
Swallow-tailed Kite
Swallowing Puffbird
Three-striped Flycatcher
Thrush like Wren
Thrush-like Antpitta
Toco Toucan
Tropical Parula
Tropical Kingbird
Tropical Screech-Owl
Tropical Gnatcatcher
Troupial
Trush-like Manakin
Turkey Vulture
Turquoise Tanager
Turquoise-fronted Parrot
Undulated Tinamou
Unicoloured Blackbird
Variegated Tinamou
Variegated Flycatcher
Vermilion Flycatcher
Versicolored Emerald
Violaceous Euphonia
Warbling Antbird
Wattled Jacana
Waved Woodpecker
Wedge-billed Woodcreeper
Whistling Heron
White-crested Guan
White-crowned Manakin
White-breasted Toucan
White-browed Antbird
White-bellied Warbler
White-fringed Antwren
White-flanked Antwren
White-faced Whistling Duck
White-eyed Parakeet
White-eared Puffbird
White-chinned Woodcreeper
White-banded Swallow
White-backed Fire-Eye
White Woodpecker
White-vented Euphonia
White-fronted Nunbird
White-necked Puffbird
White-bellied Seedeater
White-barred Piculet
White-banded Tanager
White-necked Jacobin
White-headed Marsh Tyrant
White-throated Kingbird
White-tipped Dove
White-vented Violetear
White-tailed Trogon
White-tailed Hawk
White-shouldered Antshrike
White-tailed Goldenthroat
White-winged Swallow
White-shouldered Tanager
White-necked Thrush
White-rumped Tanager
White-necked Heron
White-lored Tyrannulet
White-lined Tanager
Wing-banded Wren
Wing-barred Manakin
Wood Stork
Yellow-bellied Dacnis
Yellow-throated Spinetail
Yellow-tufted Woodpecker
Yellow-throated Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Seedeater
Yellow-crowned Tyrannulet
Yellow-headed Caracara
Yellow-ridged Toucan
Yellow-rumped Cacique
Yellow-browed Tody Flycatcher
Yellow-browed Sparrow
Yellow-billed Jacamar
Yellow-billed Tern
Yellow-breasted Flycatcher
Yellow-billed Cardinal
Yellowish Pipit
Zimmers Woodcreeper
Mammals
Monkey, Bearded Saki
Monkey, Brown Capuchin
Monkey, Squirrel
Monkey, Red Handed Howler
Monkey, Black Howler
Night Monkey
Dolphin, Grey River
Dolphin, Pink River
Long Nosed Bat
Bulldog Fisheating Bat
Three Toed Sloth
Rat, Spiny
Rat, Amazonian Bamboo
Porcupine
Peccary, Collared
Peccary, White Lipped
Ocelot
Giant River Otter
Capybara
Marsh deer
Deer, Red Brocket
Red Rocket Deer
Tapir
Red Rumped Agouti
Coati Mundi
Reptiles and Amphibians
Caiman, Black
Caiman, Spectacled
Caiman, Jacaretinga
Bufo Marinus Toad
Leptodactylis Frog
Hyla Medusa Frog
Tortoise, Orange Spotted
Tortoise, Red Spotted
Coral Snake
Bushmaster Snake
Fleur de Lance Snake
Emerald Tree Boa
Coralus Tree Boa
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