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Pages in category "Birds of the Amazon rainforest" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 524 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In this list of birds by common name 11,278 extant and recently extinct (since 1500) bird species are recognised. [1] Species marked with a "†" are extinct.
Over 1,300 of these species are types of birds, which accounts for one-third of all bird species in the world. The diets of rainforest birds greatly differ between species, although, nuts, fruits and leaves are a common food for many birds in the Amazon. Birds migrate to the Amazon rainforest from the North or South.
Pages in category "Birds of the African tropical rainforest" The following 153 pages are in this category, out of 153 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Common name Scientific name and subspecies Range IUCN status and estimated population Yellow-eared toucanet. S. spectabilis Cassin, 1858: Honduras to southwestern Colombia LC 50,000–499,999 [23] Guianan toucanet. S. piperivora (Linnaeus, 1758) Northeastern Amazon rainforest LC Unknown [24] Golden-collared toucanet. S. reinwardtii [k] (Wagler ...
This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the conventions of The Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, 2022 edition. The family accounts at the beginning of each heading reflect this taxonomy, as do the species counts in each family account.
Umbrellabird is the common name referring to three species of birds in the genus Cephalopterus.They are named for their distinct umbrella-like hoods. The umbrellabird was described by Sir Alfred Wallace, a companion of Charles Darwin, in the 1800s while on an expedition to South America. [2]
The Amazon rainforest is a species-rich biome in which thousands of species live, including animals found nowhere else in the world. To date, there is at least 40,000 different kinds of plants, 427 kinds of mammals, 1,300 kinds of birds, 378 kinds of reptiles, more than 400 kinds of amphibians, and around 3,000 freshwater fish are living in Amazon.