Birds in Paraguay
Our list for Paraguay has 46 bird species recorded regularly there: 18 residents, 7 summer visitors, 3 winter visitors, 16 passage migrants and 2 scarce visitors
The list comes from 776,000 birdwatchers' records from 2019–2024, shared through the eBird Observation Dataset on GBIF. A bird is listed when it was recorded in at least 3 of the 6 years and has a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur here than are listed; the months show when it is recorded most years.
- Species on our list
- 46
- In October
- 38
- Common
- 11
- Busiest month
- Oct
This month: October
GBIF · OctMost likely
Share of all bird records in Paraguay in October, 2019–2024. “Arriving now” are the birds whose share rises most from last month. Each month links to that month’s page.
The bird calendar for Paraguay
Month by monthWhen each bird is around, through the year. The darker the square, the closer that month is to the bird’s busiest. Filter by summer or winter visitors to see the seasons turn over.
| Bird | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monk Parakeet | ||||||||||||
| House Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Roadside Hawk | ||||||||||||
| Great White Egret | ||||||||||||
| Cattle Tyrant | ||||||||||||
| Rock Dove | ||||||||||||
| Cocoi Heron | ||||||||||||
| Burrowing Owl | ||||||||||||
| Turkey Vulture | ||||||||||||
| Solitary Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Black-crowned Night-heron | ||||||||||||
| Ferruginous Pygmy-owl | ||||||||||||
| Lesser Yellowlegs | ||||||||||||
| Pectoral Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Cattle Egret | ||||||||||||
| Barn Swallow | ||||||||||||
| Osprey | ||||||||||||
| Common Potoo | ||||||||||||
| White-rumped Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Lineated Woodpecker | ||||||||||||
| Greater Yellowlegs | ||||||||||||
| Wilson's Phalarope | ||||||||||||
| Pied-billed Grebe | ||||||||||||
| Muscovy Duck | ||||||||||||
| American Golden-Plover | ||||||||||||
| Stilt Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Upland Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Peregrine Falcon | ||||||||||||
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Hudsonian Godwit |
The year in Paraguay
Records by month| January | 64,524 |
|---|---|
| February | 56,265 |
| March | 45,422 |
| April | 39,233 |
| May | 67,491 |
| June | 52,939 |
| July | 61,244 |
| August | 63,792 |
| September | 81,705 |
| October | 110,231 |
| November | 70,490 |
| December | 62,395 |
October has the most records (110,000). Records follow birdwatchers as well as birds: a busy month means more people out looking, as well as more birds passing through.
By family
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All 46 birds, A to Z
- Alder Flycatcher
- American Golden-Plover
- Baird's Sandpiper
- Barn Swallow
- Black-crowned Night-heron
- Bobolink
- Broad-winged Hawk
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Burrowing Owl
- Cattle Egret
- Cattle Tyrant
- Cocoi Heron
- Common Potoo
- Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck
- Great Horned Owl
- Great White Egret
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Greylag Goose
- House Sparrow
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Hyacinth Macaw
- Least Sandpiper
- Lesser Yellowlegs
Show all 46 birds
- Lineated Woodpecker
- Monk Parakeet
- Mottled Owl
- Muscovy Duck
- Osprey
- Palm Tanager
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Purple Martin
- Roadside Hawk
- Rock Dove
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Short-eared Owl
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Turkey Vulture
- Upland Sandpiper
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- Wilson's Phalarope
Questions
3How many birds are on Birdfact's list for Paraguay?
46 species, each recorded regularly in Paraguay (in at least 3 of the 6 years 2019–2024): 18 residents, 7 summer visitors, 3 winter visitors, 16 passage migrants and 2 scarce visitors. The list includes only birds with a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur in Paraguay, and rarer vagrants are not listed.
What birds can I see in Paraguay in October?
38 species on our list for Paraguay are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Monk Parakeet, House Sparrow, Roadside Hawk, Great White Egret and Cattle Tyrant.
What are the most common birds in Paraguay?
Of the birds on our list, the ones birdwatchers record most often in Paraguay are Monk Parakeet, Roadside Hawk, House Sparrow, Great White Egret and Rock Dove.
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