page_title: List of tautonyms
section_title: Birds
hierarchical_section_title: List of tautonyms / Birds
context_page_description: The following is a list of tautonyms: zoological names of species consisting of two identical words. Such names are allowed in zoology, but not in botany, where the two parts of the name of a species must differ.
context_section_description: Alle alle — little auk, dovekie
  Amandava amandava — red avadavat
  Amazilia amazilia — amazilia hummingbird
  Anhinga anhinga — anhinga
  Anser anser — greylag goose
  Antigone antigone — sarus crane
  Apus apus — common swift
  Bubo bubo — Eurasian eagle-owl
  Buteo buteo — common buzzard
  Cardinalis cardinalis — northern cardinal
  Carduelis carduelis — European goldfinch
  Casuarius casuarius — southern cassowary
  Chloris chloris — European greenfinch
  Ciconia ciconia — white stork
  Cinclus cinclus — white-throated dipper
  Coccothraustes coccothraustes — hawfinch
  Cochlearius cochlearius — boat-billed heron
  Coeligena coeligena — bronzy inca
  Colius colius — white-backed mousebird
  Coscoroba coscoroba — coscoroba swan
  Cotinga cotinga — purple-breasted cotinga
  Coturnix coturnix — common quail
  Crex crex — corncrake
  Crossoptilon crossoptilon — white eared pheasant
  Curaeus curaeus — austral blackbird
  Cyanicterus cyanicterus — blue-backed tanager
  Cygnus cygnus — whooper swan
  Diuca diuca — common diuca finch
  Dives dives — melodious blackbird
  Ensifera ensifera — sword-billed hummingbird
  Falcipennis falcipennis — Siberian grouse
  Francolinus francolinus — black francolin
  Galbula galbula — green-tailed jacamar
  Gallinago gallinago — common snipe
  Gallus gallus — red junglefowl
  Grus grus — common crane
  Guira guira — guira cuckoo
  Himantopus himantopus — black-winged stilt
  Histrionicus histrionicus — harlequin duck
  Ichthyaetus ichthyaetus — Pallas's gull
  Icterus icterus — Venezuelan troupial
  Indicator indicator — greater honeyguide
  Jacana jacana — wattled jacana
  Lagopus lagopus — willow ptarmigan
  Lerwa lerwa — snow partridge
  Leucogeranus leucogeranus — Siberian crane
  Limosa limosa — black-tailed godwit
  Luscinia luscinia — thrush nightingale
  Manacus manacus — white-bearded manakin
  Mascarinus mascarinus — Mascarene parrot
  Melanodera melanodera — white-bridled finch
  Milvus milvus — red kite
  Mitu mitu — Alagoas curassow
  Nycticorax nycticorax — black-crowned night heron
  Oenanthe oenanthe — northern wheatear
  Oriolus oriolus — Eurasian golden oriole
  Pauxi pauxi — helmeted curassow
  Perdix perdix — grey partridge
  Petronia petronia — rock sparrow
  Phoenicurus phoenicurus — common redstart
  Pica pica — Eurasian magpie
  Pipile pipile — Trinidad piping guan
  Poliocephalus poliocephalus — hoary-headed grebe
  Porphyrio porphyrio — western swamphen
  Porphyrolaema porphyrolaema — purple-throated cotinga
  Porzana porzana — spotted crake
  Puffinus puffinus — Manx shearwater
  Pyrilia pyrilia — saffron-headed parrot
  Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax — red-billed chough
  Pyrrhula pyrrhula — Eurasian bullfinch
  Quelea quelea — red-billed quelea
  Radjah radjah — radjah shelduck
  Regulus regulus — goldcrest
  Riparia riparia — sand martin, bank swallow
  Rupicola rupicola — Guianan cock-of-the-rock
  Serinus serinus — European serin
  Spinus spinus — Eurasian siskin
  Suiriri suiriri — suiriri flycatcher
  Sula sula — red-footed booby
  Tadorna tadorna — common shelduck
  Tchagra tchagra — southern tchagra
  Temnurus temnurus — ratchet-tailed treepie
  Tetrax tetrax — little bustard
  Todus todus — Jamaican tody
  Troglodytes troglodytes — Eurasian wren
  Tyrannus tyrannus — eastern kingbird
  Vanellus vanellus — northern lapwing
  Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus — yellow-headed blackbird
  Xenopirostris xenopirostris — Lafresnaye's vanga
caption: Coccothraustes coccothraustes
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