Help Expand Merlin in Brazil
More than 150 recordings of each bird species are needed to train Merlin to identify a species by sound, but only 20% of bird species worldwide have enough recordings in eBird and the Macaulay Library.
You can help Merlin Sound ID learn new species and expand to new areas by making sound recordings, uploading them to eBird checklists, and tagging the background species audible in the recording.

Target Species
Updated: 5 June 2025
These species do not yet have the required 150 recordings to start training Merlin Sound ID to learn the species. With your help, we can reach 150+ for each species and be ready to add them to Sound ID!
- Swallow-tailed Hummingbird (Eupetomena macroura)
- Masked Water-Tyrant (Fluvicola nengeta)
- Blue Dacnis (Dacnis cayana)
- Burnished-buff Tanager (Stilpnia cayana)
- Violet-capped Woodnymph (Thalurania glaucopis)
- Sick’s Swift (Chaetura meridionalis)
- Glittering-bellied Emerald (Chlorostilbon lucidus)
- Peach-fronted Parakeet (Eupsittula aurea)
- Planalto Hermit (Phaethornis pretrei)
- Variegated Flycatcher (Empidonomus varius)
- Blond-crested Woodpecker (Celeus flavescens)
- Chestnut-bellied Euphonia (Euphonia pectoralis)
- Savanna Hawk (Buteogallus meridionalis)
- Whistling Heron (Syrigma sibilatrix)
- Sapphire-spangled Emerald (Chionomesa lactea)
- Rufescent Tiger-Heron (Tigrisoma lineatum)
- Ochre-collared Piculet (Picumnus temminckii)
- Little Woodpecker (Dryobates passerinus)
- Rufous-headed Tanager (Hemithraupis ruficapilla)
- Wood Stork (Mycteria americana)
- Aplomado Falcon (Falco femoralis)
- Pileated Finch (Coryphospingus pileatus)
- Orange-headed Tanager (Thlypopsis sordida)
- Yellow-fronted Woodpecker (Melanerpes flavifrons)
- White-browed Meadowlark (Leistes superciliaris)
- Gray-rumped Swift (Chaetura cinereiventris)
- Pin-tailed Manakin (Ilicura militaris)
- Azure Jay (Cyanocorax caeruleus)
- Diademed Tanager (Stephanophorus diadematus)
- Black-collared Hawk (Busarellus nigricollis)
- Black-capped Foliage-gleaner (Philydor atricapillus)
- Araucaria Tit-Spinetail (Leptasthenura setaria)
- Streamer-tailed Tyrant (Gubernetes yetapa)
- Green Honeycreeper (Chlorophanes spiza)
- White-eared Puffbird (Nystalus chacuru)
- Red-headed Manakin (Ceratopipra rubrocapilla)
- White-naped Jay (Cyanocorax cyanopogon)
- Hyacinth Macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus)
- Plumbeous Ibis (Theristicus caerulescens)
- Hooded Berryeater (Carpornis cucullata)
- Golden-winged Parakeet (Brotogeris chrysoptera)
- White-throated Woodcreeper (Xiphocolaptes albicollis)
- Crescent-chested Puffbird (Malacoptila striata)
- Large-billed Antwren (Herpsilochmus longirostris)
- Gray-eyed Greenlet (Hylophilus amaurocephalus)
- Robust Woodpecker (Campephilus robustus)
- Spotted Nothura (Nothura maculosa)
- Small-headed Elaenia (Elaenia sordida)
- Orange-eyed Thornbird (Phacellodomus erythrophthalmus)
- White-browed Woodpecker (Piculus aurulentus)
- Olive Spinetail (Cranioleuca obsoleta)
- Red-ruffed Fruitcrow (Pyroderus scutatus)
- Gray-throated Warbling Finch (Microspingus cabanisi)
- Eye-ringed Tody-Tyrant (Hemitriccus orbitatus)
- Plain-breasted Ground Dove (Columbina minuta)
- Unicolored Antwren (Myrmotherula unicolor)
- Pantanal Snipe (Gallinago paraguaiae)
- Red-stained Woodpecker (Dryobates affinis)
- Band-tailed Manakin (Pipra fasciicauda)
- Ashy-headed Greenlet (Hylophilus pectoralis)
- Red-breasted Meadowlark (Leistes militaris)
- Scissor-tailed Nightjar (Hydropsalis torquata)
- Chotoy Spinetail (Schoeniophylax phryganophilus)
- Pale-bellied Tyrant-Manakin (Neopelma pallescens)
- Rufous-winged Antshrike (Thamnophilus torquatus)
- Collared Crescentchest (Melanopareia torquata)
- Vinaceous-breasted Amazon (Amazona vinacea)
- Screaming Cowbird (Molothrus rufoaxillaris)
- White-winged Parakeet (Brotogeris versicolurus)
- Crowned Slaty Flycatcher (Empidonomus aurantioatrocristatus)
- Spix’s Warbling-Antbird (Hypocnemis striata)
- Greenish Tyrannulet (Phyllomyias virescens)
- Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius)
- Stripe-necked Tody-Tyrant (Hemitriccus striaticollis)
- Red-fan Parrot (Deroptyus accipitrinus)
- White-bibbed Antbird (Myrmoderus loricatus)
- Amazonian Plain-Xenops (Xenops genibarbis)
- Sulphury Flycatcher (Tyrannopsis sulphurea)
- Band-tailed Antbird (Hypocnemoides maculicauda)
- Amazonian Streaked-Antwren (Myrmotherula multostriata)
- Chestnut-headed Tanager (Thlypopsis pyrrhocoma)
- Gray-hooded Gull (Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus)
- Little Cuckoo (Coccycua minuta)
- Red-billed Pied Tanager (Lamprospiza melanoleuca)
- Black-and-gold Cotinga (Lipaugus ater)
- East Amazonian Fire-eye (Pyriglena leuconota)
- Brazilian Tinamou (Crypturellus strigulosus)
- Buff-cheeked Greenlet (Pachysylvia muscicapina)
- Red-and-white Crake (Rufirallus leucopyrrhus)
- Sclater’s Antwren (Myrmotherula sclateri)
- Point-tailed Palmcreeper (Berlepschia rikeri)
- Brown-and-yellow Marshbird (Pseudoleistes virescens)
- Variable Chachalaca (Ortalis motmot)
- Bronzy Jacamar (Galbula leucogastra)
- Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica)
- Long-tailed Reed Finch (Donacospiza albifrons)
- Bicolored Hawk (Astur bicolor)
- Coscoroba Swan (Coscoroba coscoroba)
- Zimmer’s Tody-Tyrant (Hemitriccus minimus)
- Spotted Puffbird (Bucco tamatia)
- Gray Tinamou (Tinamus tao)
- Chestnut Woodpecker (Celeus elegans)
- White-eyed Stipplethroat (Epinecrophylla leucophthalma)
- Lesser Grass-Finch (Emberizoides ypiranganus)
- Spot-breasted Woodpecker (Colaptes punctigula)
- Painted Tody-Flycatcher (Todirostrum pictum)
- Guianan Trogon (Trogon violaceus)
- Giant Snipe (Gallinago undulata)
- Blackish-blue Seedeater (Amaurospiza moesta)
- Capuchinbird (Perissocephalus tricolor)
- Rufous-throated Antbird (Gymnopithys rufigula)
- Planalto Tapaculo (Scytalopus pachecoi)
- Dusky-tailed Flatbill (Ramphotrigon fuscicauda)
- Collared Gnatwren (Microbates collaris)
- Ash-breasted Antbird (Myrmoborus lugubris)
- Painted Parakeet (Pyrrhura picta)
- Cherrie’s Antwren (Myrmotherula cherriei)
- Helmeted Woodpecker (Celeus galeatus)
- White Bellbird (Procnias albus)
- Silky-tailed Nightjar (Antrostomus sericocaudatus)
- White-bellied Spinetail (Mazaria propinqua)
- Flammulated Pygmy-Tyrant (Hemitriccus flammulatus)
- Black-and-white Antbird (Myrmochanes hemileucus)
- Black-and-white Tody-Flycatcher (Poecilotriccus capitalis)
- Wing-banded Antbird (Myrmornis torquata)
- Chestnut-throated Spinetail (Synallaxis cherriei)
- Castelnau’s Antshrike (Thamnophilus cryptoleucus)