page_title: Fauna of Colombia
section_title: Birds
hierarchical_section_title: Fauna of Colombia / Birds
caption_attribution_description: Perched male Rufous-tailed Jacamar (Galbula ruficauda melanogenia), back view, Caracol, Belize
context_page_description: The fauna of Colombia is characterized by a high biodiversity, with the highest rate of species by area unit worldwide.
context_section_description: Over 1800 species of birds have been described in Colombia, (more than the number of existent bird species in North America and Europe combined).
  Some of the bird species in Colombia are:
  American redstart
  Groove-billed ani
  Spotted antbird
  White-plumed antbird
  Antioquia bristle-tyrant
  Northern slaty-antshrike
  Blackish-grey antshrike
  Black-faced antthrush
  White-flanked antwren
  Galapagos penguin
  Checker-throated stipplethroat
  Apical flycatcher
  Apolinar's wren
  Argus bare-eye
  Cinnamon attila
  Band-tailed barbthroat
  Pale-tailed barbthroat
  Baudó oropendola
  Beautiful woodpecker
  Bearded bellbird
  Black-and-gold tanager
  Black-chested buzzard-eagle
  Black-mandibled toucan
  Blackish tapaculo
  Bogotá rail
  Empress brilliant
  Fawn-breasted brilliant
  Brown-banded antpitta
  Buff-breasted mountain-tanager
  Red-rumped cacique
  Scarlet-rumped cacique
  Red-capped cardinal
  Grey catbird
  Little chachalaca
  Rufous-vented chachalaca
  Chestnut-bellied flower-piercer
  Chestnut-capped piha
  Chestnut-mandibled toucan
  Choco toucan
  Chocó vireo
  Clapper rail
  Andean cock-of-the-rock
  Guianan cock-of-the-rock
  Collared trogon
  Festive coquette
  Spangled coquette
  Buff-tailed coronet
  Velvet-purple coronet
  Pompadour cotinga
  Bronzed cowbird
  Crested ant-tanager
  Cundinamarca antpitta
  Great curassow
  Dickcissel
  Black-capped donacobius
  Common ground dove
  Grey-fronted dove
  Mourning dove
  White-tipped dove
  Dusky-headed brush-finch
  American harpy eagle
  Crested eagle
  Forest elaenia
  Yellow-crowned elaenia
  Andean emerald
  Blue-tailed emerald
  Glittering-throated emerald
  Versicolored emerald
  Euler's flycatcher
  Orange-bellied euphonia
  Purple-crowned fairy
  Laughing falcon
  Flame-winged parakeet
  Acadian flycatcher
  Fuscous flycatcher
  Great crested flycatcher
  Ruddy-tailed flycatcher
  Sulphur-bellied flycatcher
  Orange-breasted fruiteater
  Black-faced hawk
  Common black hawk
  Bronzy hermit
  Great-billed hermit
  Green hermit
  Grey-chinned hermit
  Long-billed hermit
  Reddish hermit
  Rufous-breasted hermit
  Sooty-capped hermit
  Stripe-throated hermit
  Tawny-bellied hermit
  White-whiskered hermit
  Zigzag heron
  Purple honeycreeper
  Giant hummingbird
  Green-bellied hummingbird
  Indigo-capped hummingbird
  Ruby-topaz hummingbird
  Rufous-tailed hummingbird
  Snowy-breasted hummingbird
  Speckled hummingbird
  Steely-vented hummingbird
  Violet-bellied hummingbird
  Buff-necked ibis
  Brown inca
  Collared inca
  Bronzy jacamar
  Green-tailed jacamar
  Pale-headed jacamar
  Paradise jacamar
  Rufous-tailed jacamar
  Yellow-billed jacamar
  White-necked jacobin
  Green jay
  American pygmy kingfisher
  Great kiskadee
  Long-wattled umbrellabird
  Blue-backed manakin
  Lance-tailed manakin
  Wire-tailed manakin
  Green-breasted mango
  Tyrian metaltail
  Tropical mockingbird
  Amazonian motmot
  Andean motmot
  Whooping motmot
  Rufous motmot
  Mountain grackle
  Moustached brush-finch
  Multicoloured tanager
  Niceforo's wren
  Lesser nighthawk
  Northern helmeted curassow
  Brown nunlet
  Rusty-breasted nunlet
  Oilbird
  Baltimore oriole
  Orchard oriole
  South American yellow oriole
  Pale-legged warbler
  Parker's antbird
  Mealy amazon
  Yellow-eared parrot
  Green-rumped parrotlet
  Western wood pewee
  Black phoebe
  Band-tailed pigeon
  Ruddy pigeon
  Short-billed pigeon
  Collared puffbird
  Russet-throated puffbird
  White-necked puffbird
  Colorful puffleg
  Gorgeted puffleg
  Golden-headed quetzal
  White-tipped quetzal
  Booted racket-tail
  Red-bellied grackle
  Royal flycatcher
  Rufous-breasted wren
  Rufous-fronted parakeet
  Rufous-tailed antthrush
  Rusty-headed spinetail
  Santa Marta antpitta
  Santa Marta brush-finch
  Santa Marta bush-tyrant
  Santa Marta mountain-tanager
  Santa Marta parakeet
  Santa Marta tapaculo
  Santa Marta warbler
  Santa Marta wren
  Blue-chinned sapphire
  Scarlet macaw
  Black-necked screamer
  Horned screamer
  Variable seedeater
  Buff-tailed sicklebill
  White-tipped sicklebill
  Silvery-throated spinetail
  Red siskin
  Yellow-bellied siskin
  Sooty ant-tanager
  Sooty-capped puffbird
  Orange-billed sparrow
  Blue-tufted starthroat
  Long-billed starthroat
  Black storm-petrel
  Least storm-petrel
  Streak-capped spinetail
  Gorgeted sunangel
  Orange-throated sunangel
  Tree swallow
  Swallow-wing
  Short-tailed swift
  Sick's swift
  Violet-tailed sylph
  Blue-gre
caption: Male rufous-tailed jacamar
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