on this page we listed some of the animals that live in rio de janeiro's mata atlântica, divided in mammals, marsupials, reptiles, and birds.
mammals
(english name, portuguese name, and latin name - clicking on name opens pictures)
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howler monkey (macaco guariba / alouatta sp)
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brown howler (bugio or barbado / alouatta guariba guariba)
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black-faced lion tamarin (mico-leão-da-cara-preta / leontopithecus caissara)
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golden lion tamarin (mico-leão-preto / leontopithecus chrysopygus)
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northern muriqui (muriqui-do-norte / brachyteles hypoxanthus)
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yellow-breasted capuchin monkeys (macaco-prego-do-peito-amarelo / cebus xantosthernos)
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short-furred atlantic tree-rat (rato-da-árvore / phyllomys unicolor)
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orange-brownatlantic tree-rat (rato-da-árvore / phyllomys brasiliensis)
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giant atlantic tree-rat (cururuá / phyllomys thomasi)
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crested capuchin or robust tufted capuchin (rato-de-espinho / trinomys moojeni)
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golden-headed lion tamarin (mico-leão-da-cara-dourada / leontopithecus chrysomelas)
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golden lion tamarin (mico-leão-dourado / leontopithecus rosalia)
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buffy-headed marmoset (sagüi-da-serra / callithrix flaviceps)
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buffy tufted marmoset (sagüi-da-serra-escuro / callithrix aurita)
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marmosets-tufted white (sagüi-de-tufo-branco / callithrix jaccus)
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woolly spider monkey (muriqui-do-sul or monocarvoeiro / brachyteles arachnoides)
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maned three-toed sloth (preguiça-de-coleira / bradypus torquatus)
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tufted capuchin or brown capuchin monkey (macaco-prego / cebus apella)
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crested capuchin or robust tufted capuchin (macaco-prego-de-crista / cebus robustus)
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coastal black-handed titi (guigó or sauá / callicebus melanochir)
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masked titi (guigó or sauá / callicebus personatus)
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bristle-spined (ouriço-preto / chaetomys subspinosus)
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painted tree-rat (saruê-beijú / callistomys pictus)
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arboreal rat (rato-do-mato-ferrugíneo / phaenomys ferrugineus)
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brazilian arboreal mouse (rato-do-mato-vermelho / rhagomys rufescens)
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blackish red bat (morcego / lasiurus ebenus)
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bokermann's nectar bat (morcego-beija-flor / lonchophylla bokermanni)
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endangered small red brocket deer (veado bororó or veado-mateiro-pequeno / mazama bororo)
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spiked atlantic spiny rat (rato-de-espinho / trinomys paratus)
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marsupials
(english name, portuguese name, and latin name - clicking on name opens pictures)
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common opossums (gambá comum / didelphis marsupialis)
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big-eared opossum (gambá-de-orelha-preta / didelphis aurita)
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white eared opossum (gambá-de-orelha-branca / didelphis albiventris)
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water opossum (cuíca d'água / chironectes minimus)
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bare tailed woolly opossum (cuíca lanosa / caluromys philander)
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brown-eared wooly opossum (cuíca lanosa / caluromys lanatus)
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opossum (cuíca / micoureus travassosi)
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lesser anteate (tamanduá-mirim / tamandua tetradactyla)
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collared anteater (preguiça-de- coleira / bradypus torquatus)
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armadillo (tatú / dasypus, euphractus)
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forest rabbit (tapiti / silvilagus brasiliensis)
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yellow throated squirrel (esquilo da garganta amarela / sciurus gilvigularis)
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atlantic forest squirrel, (serelepe ou caxinguelê / sciurus aestuans)
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capybara (capivara / hydrochaeris hydrochaeris)
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brazilian porcupine (ouriço-caixeiro / coendou prehensilis)
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brazilian guinea pig (preá ou bengo / cavia aperea)
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greater guinea pig (preá grande / cavia magna)
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golden rumped agouti (cotia / dasyprocta aguti)
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azara's agouti (cotia / dasyprocta azarae)
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brazilian agouti (cotia / dasyprocta leporina)
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black-rumped agouti (cotia / dasyprocta prymnolopha)
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native rats (ratos-do-mato / cricetidae)
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spiny rat (rato-do-bambu / dactylomys dactylinus)
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crab-eating fox (cachorro-do-mato / cerdocyon thous)
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raccon (guaxinim ou mão-pelada / procyon lotor)
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crab-eating raccoon (guaxinim ou mão-pelada / procyon cancrivorus)
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brazilian otter (lontra / lutra longicaudis)
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american coati or ring-tailed coati (coati / nasua nasua)
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greyheaded tayra (eira barbara / irara)
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lesser grison (furão / galictis grison)
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wild cat (gato selvagem / felis silvestris)
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guaiba dwarf mouse opossum (catita ou guaíba / cryptonanus guahybae)
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agile gracile opossum or agile gracile mouse (cuíca / gracilinanus agilis)
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brazilian gracile opossum (cuíca / gracilinanus microtarsus)
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thick tailed opossum (cuíca-de-cauda-grossa / lutreolina crassicaudata)
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gray and black four-eyed opossum (cuíca-cinza-de-quatro-olhos / philander frenatus)
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four-eyed opossum (cuica de quatro olhos / metachirus nudicaudatus)
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collared peccary (porco-do-mato ou caitetus / tayassu tajacu)
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reptiles
(english name, portuguese name, and latin name - clicking on name opens pictures)
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broad-snouted caiman (jacaré-de-papo-amarelo / caiman latirostris)
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red tale (jibóia do rabo vermelho / boa constrictor constrictor)
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short-tailed boas (jibóia / boa constrictor amarali)
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common lancehead (jararaca-da-mata / bothrops jararaca)
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jararaca (surucucu / bothrops jararacussu)
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uruguayan coral snake (coral verdadeira / micrurus altirostris)
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painted coral snake (cobra-coral / micrurus corallinus)
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green sipo (cobra- cipó / chironius exoletus)
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yellow rat snake (caninana / spilotes pullatus)
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golden tegu (lagarto teju ou teiú-branco / tupinambis teguixin)
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green ameiva (bico-doce ou calango verde / ameiva ameiva)
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amazon lava lizard (calango / tropidurus torquatus)
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nose anole (lagarto / anolis nasofrontalis)
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brazilian anole (lagarto papa-vento / anolis nitens brasiliensis)
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spotted anole or green nole (lagarto / anolis punctatus boulengeri)
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snake-necked turtle (cágado da serra ou cágado pescoço de cobra / hydromedusa maximiliani)
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white witch, birdwing moth or ghost moth (mariposa-imperador ou bruxa-branca / thysania agrippina)
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tarantula hawk (marimbondo-caçador / pepsis fabricius)
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birds
(english name, portuguese name, and latin name - clicking on name opens pictures)
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brown tinamou (inhambú-guaçu / crypturellus obsoletus)
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small-billed tinamou (inhambú-xororó / crypturellus parvirostris)
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tataupa tinamou (inhambú-xintã / crypturellus tataupa)
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solitary tinamou (macuco / tinamus solitarius)
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cattle egret (garça-boiadeira / bubulcus ibis)
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least bittern (socó-mirim / ixobrychus exilis erythromelas)
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great egret (garça branca / egretta casmerodius)
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white-faced whistling-duck (irerê / dendrocygna viduata)
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brazilian teal (marreca-ananai / amazonetta brasiliensis)
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black vulture (urubu comum / coragyps atratus)
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turkey vulture (urubu-caçador / cathartes aura)
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savanna hawk (gavião-cabloco / heterospizias meridionalis)
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white-tailed kite. (gavião-peneira / elanus leucurus)
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roadside hawk (gavião pega-pinto ou gavião-carijó / buteo magnirostris)
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swainson's pearl kite (gaviãozinho / gampsonyx swainsonii)
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yellow-headed caracara (gavião-carrapateiro / milvago chimachima)
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black hawk-eagle (gavião pega-macaco / spizaetus tyrannus)
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grey-necked wood-rail (saracura-três potes / aramides cajanea)
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purple gallinule (frango-d'água-azul / porphyrula martinica)
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purple-winged ground-dove (pomba-espelho / claravis godefrida)
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plumbeous pigeon (pomba-amargosa / columba plumbea)
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ruddy ground (rolinhas / columbina talpacoti)
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nome em inglês (nome em português / nome latino)
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white-tipped dove (juriti-pupu, / leptotila verreauxi)
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grey-fronted dove (juruti-gemedeira / leptotila rufaxilla)
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canary-winged parakeet (periquito-de-asa-amarela / brotogeris versicolorus)
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scaly-headed parrot (maitaca-verde / pionus maximilian)
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blue-bellied parrot (sabiá-cica / triclaria malachitacea)
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squirrel cuckoo, (cuculídeos alma-de-gato / piaya cayana)
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smooth-billed ani (anú-preto / crotophaga ani)
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guira cuckoo (anú-branco / guira guira)
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barn owl (coruja-das-igrejas / tyto alba suindara)
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tawny-browed owl (jacurutu / pulsatrix koeniswaldiana)
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burrowing owl (coruja-buraqueira / speotyto cunicularia)
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striped owl (corujão-de-orelha / rhinoptynx clamator)
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saw-billed hermit (beija-flor / ramphodon naevius)
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swallow-tailed hummingbird (beija-flor-tesoura / eupetomena macroura)
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black jacobin (beija-flor-preto-e-branco / melanotrochilus fuscus)
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green hermit (ermitão verde / phaetornis guy)
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glittering-throated emerald (beija-flor-de-garganta-verde / amazilia fimbriata)
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green-backed trogon (surucuá-de-barriga-dourada / trogon viridis )
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black-throated (surucuá-de-barriga-amarela / trogon rufus)
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rufous-capped motmot (juruva-verde / baryphthengus ruficapillus)
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white-eared puffbird (joão-bobo / nystalus chacuru)
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crescent-chested puffbird (joão-barbudo / malacoptila striata)
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channel-billed toucan (tucano-de-bico-preto / ramphastos vitellinus ariel)
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spot-billed toucanet (araçari-poca / selenidera maculirostris)
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campo flicker (xanxão ou pica-pau do campo / colaptes campestris)
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blond-crested woodpecker (pica-pau-de-cabeça-amarela / celeus flavescens)
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yellow-fronted woodpecker (pica-pau-de-testa-amarela / melanerpes flavifrons)
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white woodpecker (pica-pau branco / melanerpes candidus)
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bare-throated bellbird (araponga / procnias nudicollis)
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red-breasted blackbird (polícia-inglesa / leistes militaris)
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rufous hornero (joão-de-barro / furnarius rufus badius)
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black-tailed tityra (anambé-branco-de-rabo-preto / tityra cayana)
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blue manakin (tangará / chiroxiphia caudata)
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fork-tailed flycatcher (tesourinha / muscivora tyrannus)
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great kiskadee (bem-te-vi / pitangus sulphuratus)
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house wren (cambaxirra ou curruíra / troglodytes aedon)
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chalk-browed mockingbird (sabiá-do-campo / mimus saturninus)
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black-capped donacobius (japacanim / donacobius atricapillus)
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yellow-legged thrush (sabiá-una / platycichla flavipes)
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rufous-bellied thrush (sabiá-laranjeira / turdus rufiventris)
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creamy-bellied thrush (sabiá-poca / turdus amaurochalinus)
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red-rumped cacique (guaxe / cacicus haemorrhous)
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green-headed tanager (saíra-sete-cores / tangara seledon)
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sayaca tanager (sanhaço-cinzento / thraupis sayaca)
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palm tanager (sanhaço-do-coqueiro / thraupis palmarum)
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brazilian tanager (tiê-sangue / ramphocelus bresilius)
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green-winged saltator (trinca-ferro / saltator similis)
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buffy-fronted seedeater (pixoxó / sporophila frontalis)
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double-collared seedeater (coleirinho ou papa-capim / sporophila caerulescens)
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yellow throated (gaturamo / euphonia spp)
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common waxbill (bico-de-lacre comum / estrilda astrild)
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house sparrow (pardal / passer domesticus)
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mata atlântica - flora & fauna - state forests - history & maps - safety & tips
published by the instituto chico mendes de conservação da biodiversidade, the 276-page atlas da fauna brasileira ameaçada de extinção em unidades de conservação federais (atlas of brazilian fauna threatened with extinction in federal conservation units), makes a detailed account of threatened species, and shows that with 12.3 % of the total, and second only to the state of bahia, rio de janeiro is home to the largest percentage of threatened species in brazil.