Birds to See in Brazil in December
73 species listed for December · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
73 bird species on our list for Brazil are recorded regularly in December. Of these, the most often recorded are House Sparrow, Palm Tanager, Rock Dove, Roadside Hawk and Great White Egret. New this month: Bobolink.
New in December1
Leaving after last month4
Residents
(37)Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Palm Tanager
Thraupis palmarumLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Roadside Hawk
Rupornis magnirostrisLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes auraLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Tyrant
Machetornis rixosaLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Burrowing Owl
Athene cuniculariaLC
Recorded all year
Cocoi Heron
Ardea cocoiLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Monk Parakeet
Myiopsitta monachusLC
Recorded all year
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Recorded all year
Lineated Woodpecker
Dryocopus lineatusLC
Recorded all year
Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
Glaucidium brasilianumLC
Recorded all year
Common Potoo
Nyctibius griseusLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna bicolorLC
Recorded all year
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Accipiter striatusLC
Recorded all year
Scarlet Macaw
Ara macaoLC
Recorded all year
Yellow-browed Sparrow
Ammodramus aurifronsLC
Recorded all year
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Recorded all year
Frilled Coquette
Lophornis magnificusLC
Recorded all year
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Recorded all year
Mottled Owl
Strix virgataLC
Recorded all year
Great Horned Owl
Bubo virginianusLC
Recorded all year
Stygian Owl
Asio stygiusLC
Recorded all year
Greylag Goose
Anser anserLC
Recorded all year
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Recorded all year
Short-eared Owl
Asio flammeusLC
Recorded all year
Harpy Eagle
Harpia harpyjaVU
Recorded all year
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly May–Mar
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchosLC
Regularly Apr–Jan
Brazilian Merganser
Mergus octosetaceusCR
Regularly Mar–Jan
Black Swan
Cygnus atratusLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(29)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Recorded all year
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollisVU
Regularly Aug–May
American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominicaLC
Regularly Sep–May
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Recorded all year
Red Knot
Calidris canutusNT
Recorded all year
Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Recorded all year
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Aug–May
Purple Martin
Progne subisLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Veery
Catharus fuscescensLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Calidris subruficollisVU
Regularly Sep–Apr
Hudsonian Godwit
Limosa haemasticaVU
Regularly Sep–Jun
Upland Sandpiper
Bartramia longicaudaLC
Regularly Sep–Feb
Blackpoll Warbler
Setophaga striataNT
Regularly Oct–Mar
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Wilson's Phalarope
Phalaropus tricolorLC
Regularly Aug–Jan
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Egyptian Goose
Alopochen aegyptiacaLC
Regularly Aug–Feb
Winter visitors
(1)Present outside the breeding season
Passage migrants
(6)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Red Junglefowl
Gallus gallusLC
Regularly Feb–Dec
Bobolink
Dolichonyx oryzivorusLC
Regularly Dec–Mar
Common Starling
Sturnus vulgarisLC
Regularly May–Dec
Indian Peafowl
Pavo cristatusLC
Regularly Nov–Jul
Manx Shearwater
Puffinus puffinusLC
Regularly Mar–Dec
Roseate Tern
Sterna dougalliiLC
Regularly Sep–Dec
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made