Wattled Jacana (Jacana jacana)

Distribution: Resident breeder from western Panama and Trinidad south through most of South America east of the Andes; in marshes and shallow lakes.

Conservation status: Least Concern.

Wattled Jacana 

South American Painted-Snipe (Nycticryphes semicollaris)

Distribution: Southern Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay to Chile and Argentina. It inhabits lowland freshwater wetlands, including wet grasslands.

Conservation status: [...]

It’s a little known fact that there is a group of shorebirds that live and migrate only between Central and South America. They are called Endemic Neotropical Shorebirds. The Neotropics contains 27 endemic shorebird species, and two endemic families, the Seed-snipes (Thinocoridae) and the monospecific family of the Magellanic Plover (Pluvianellidae). Unlike Neartic migratory shorebirds, [...]