- 650 species (in Brazil 1580 are classified) - prick-stick, macaw-blue (to macaw-blue it is one of the Brazilian birds in extinction road, threatened so much for the hunt as for the disappearance of its habitat. The bird also appears in the North and Northeast. They exist approximately about 4.000 in the country and in the last 20 years, more than 15 thousand macaws were removed of Brazil. As it is very noisy, to macaw-blue it seems very present and it was difficult for the inhabitants of the Swampland to see it as a bird in extinction. Today, the farmers and the peasants help to impede the trade of the birds), tuiuiú (it gets to measure 1.10 m), toucan, parakeet, cafezinho, heron-white (migratory bird that, at that time of reproduction he/she meets in great decrees), jaburu, kiss-flower (they weigh 2 grams), secós (species of heron of brown coloration), jaçanã, ema (it weighs about 30 Kg), seriema, parrot, colhelheiro, cardinal, hawk-smoke, carcará, curicaca, want-wants, I joão-paint, carão, surucuá, Hawk-Caramujeiro, Tucanaçu

Tuiuiú (Jabiru mycteria) _ Família Ciconiidae. It is the bird-symbol of the Swampland. Also jaburu call. Of the point of the beak to the feet arrives up to 140 cm of length. Tucanaçu (Ramphastos stub) _ Família Ramphastidae. They are the largest toucans of Brazil, measuring 55 Its cm. body is mainly black, with white throat, red womb and blue paws. The beak, orange, is almost of the size of the body. Hawk-Caramujeiro (Rosthramus sociabilis) _ Family accipitridae. They are hawks of medium load, measuring about 40 cm. Possesses black body with white strip in the tail. The beak is orange and black, with a long point in hook form. Curicaca-Pantaneira (Theristicus caudatus) _ Família Threskiornithidae. Ave of the group of the íbis, with coloration general ash-lead, eyes and red paws and a white strip in the fronte. The beak is long and recurvado down, working as a tongs that is used to remove of the mud the small animals that feed. Frequently found in the soil, in flooded areas, unlike the other very common curicaca in the Swampland, that is typical of local drier. They make the nests with gravetos. The name `` curicaca " is onomatopéico, that is to say, given by the sound that the bird produces when singing.

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