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  2. Red-crested cardinal - Wikipedia

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    The red-crested cardinal is now one of six species placed in the genus Paroaria that was introduced in 1832 by the French naturalist Charles Lucien Bonaparte. The species is monotypic: no subspecies are recognised. [5] The genus name is from Tiéguacú paroára, a name for a small yellow, red and grey bird in the extinct Tupi language.

  3. List of birds of Brazil - Wikipedia

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    Order: Tinamiformes Family: Tinamidae Little tinamou Red-winged tinamou. The tinamous are one of the most ancient groups of bird. Although they look similar to other ground-dwelling birds like quail and grouse, they have no close relatives and are classified as a single family, Tinamidae, within their own order, the Tinamiformes.

  4. Yellow cardinal - Wikipedia

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    The yellow cardinal was formally described in 1817 by the French ornithologist Louis Pierre Vieillot under the binomial name Coccothraustes cristata. [3] [4] The specific epithet is from the Latin cristatus meaning "crested" or "plumed". [5] The species was moved to its own genus Gubernatrix by the French naturalist René Lesson in 1837. [6]

  5. Scarlet macaw - Wikipedia

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    Copan, Honduras. The scarlet macaw (Ara macao) is a large yellow, red and blue Neotropical parrot native to humid evergreen forests of the Americas.Its range extends from southeastern Mexico to Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Bolivia, Venezuela, Honduras, and Brazil in lowlands of 500 m (1,600 ft) (at least formerly) up to 1,000 m (3,300 ft), the Caribbean island of Trinidad, as well as the Pacific ...

  6. Pyrrhuloxia - Wikipedia

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    The desert cardinal is one of three birds in the genus Cardinalis in the family Cardinalidae, a group of passerine birds found in North and South America.. Its name of pyrrhuloxia – once part of its scientific name – comes from Greek terms describing its coloration (πυρρος = pyrrhos = reddish or orange) and the shape of its bill (λοξος = loxos = oblique).

  7. Red-capped cardinal - Wikipedia

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    The adult red-capped cardinal is 16.5 cm (6.5 in) long and weighs about 22 g (0.78 oz). The nominate subspecies has a crimson head, blackish lores and ocular region, and shiny black upperparts, apart from a white partial collar extending up the neck sides from the white underparts.

  8. Rio Madeira stipplethroat - Wikipedia

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    The Rio Madeira stipplethroat is 10 to 11 cm (3.9 to 4.3 in) long and weighs 8.7 to 9 g (0.31 to 0.32 oz). Adult males of the nominate subspecies have a mottled yellowish brown face and a white throat with black streaks. They have a dark yellowish brown crown, a slightly redder nape, and a dark red mantle, back, rump, and uppertail coverts ...

  9. Rio de Janeiro antwren - Wikipedia

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    The Rio de Janeiro antwren is known only from the holotype and a few observations, and its taxonomy is unsettled. [2] The bird's discoverer, the South American Classification Committee of the American Ornithological Society, the International Ornithological Committee, and the Clements taxonomy consider it a full species.