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The cattle egret has undergone a rapid and wide reaching natural expansions. Originally adapted to a commensal relationship with large grazing and browsing animals, it was easily able to switch to domesticated cattle and horses. As the keeping of livestock spread throughout the world, the cattle egret was able to occupy otherwise empty niches.

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The cacacara spends a lot of time on the ground. With its long legs and toes, it is well adapted to walking in open habitats. Prey includes invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians, and occasionally small birds and mammals. Mainly it feeds on carrion and is sometimes found together with vultures on larger carcasses.

Turkey vultures are widely distributed in the Americas. They are found in open terrain as well as in forests, and in deserts.

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Bananaquits feed on nectar, insects or suck the juice from berries. They cannot stand in the air like hummingbirds, but must sit down to feed. They pierce hard-to-reach, tubular flowers with their beaks from the side.

The Black Vulture is gregarious and feeds primarily on carrion, but will prey on itself on occasion. As a litter eater, it is often valued as a beneficial animal.

The Ani is found in open and semi-open country and areas under cultivation. This common and conspicuous species has greatly benefited from deforestation. The species feeds on termintes, insetcs, other invertebrates and even lizards, frogs eggs and fruits.

The Ani is found in open and semi-open country and areas under cultivation. This common and conspicuous species has greatly benefited from deforestation. The species feeds on termintes, insetcs, other invertebrates and even lizards, frogs eggs and fruits.

The guira cuckoo uses open habitats such as pastures and wetlands, and its range has expanded significantly due to deforestation. The species is an opportunistic predator, gathering small prey on the ground or searching for them among branches. It feeds on worms, insects and other arthropods, frogs, small birds and small mammals such as mice.

The habitat of this species is forest borders and other open woodland. Foraging occurs in all tree layers and mostly on trunks and larger branches, occasionally on the ground. Lineated Woodpeckers also regularly visit isolated trees in the open landscape. The food consists of beetles and their wood-dwelling larvae, ants, as well as caterpillars.

The snowy egret is native in the Americas. They stalk prey in shallow water, often running or shuffling their feet, flushing prey into view by swaying their heads, flicking their wings or vibrating their bills.

The violaceous euphonia occurs in forests, second growth and plantations of cocoa and citrus fruit. The ball nest is built on a bank, tree stump or cavity and the normal clutch is four, sometimes three, red-blotched white eggs, which are incubated by the female.

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The peach-fronted parakeet does much foraging on the ground. Its primary food is seeds from a wide variety of plants; it also feeds on termites and insect larvae. It feeds in agricultural fields, both before harvest and to glean after harvest.

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It inhabits tropical and subtropical moist evergreen forests and edges as well as open bush canopy. The East Brazilian pygmy owl mainly feeds on small insects and sometimes catches small vertebrates. It is active at dusk and dawn, but occasionally hunts during the day.

The yellow-rumped cacique is associated with open woodland or cultivation with large trees. The C. cela has benefited from the more open habitat created by forest clearance and ranching.

Its range covers much of the Amazon Basin and extends from northern Brazil to northern Argentina. It is found in the vicinity of water, in marshes, in nearby grassland and in rice fields

The campo troupial is endemic to northeastern Brazil, It typically inhabits dry scrubland and deciduous woodland, The diet consists of insects and other small invertebrates, fruits and nectar.

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The yellow-fronted woodpecker is native to eastern South America. The species has a mixed diet consisting mainly of berries and fruits, but including seeds, insects and their larvae.

The species is found in open woodland and grassland habitats, but also scrubland and crop fields.

The plain parakeet is found in eastern Brazil. It inhabits the Mata Atlantica where it occurs in secondary forests, cultivated land with groves of trees, plantations, and urban parks. It is common in cities  like Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. The plain parakeet feeds mainly on seeds, fruit, flowers, and nectar from a very wide variety of plants and trees.

Cobalt-rumped parrotlets are mainly found in lowlands. They occur in dry and riparian woodlands, cerrado, caatinga, palm groves, semi-arid scrublands, savanna and pastures. The cobalt-rumped parrotlet is not known to be affected by deforestation or the pet trade, unlike many of its close relatives in the genus Forpus.

The species inhabits a wide variety of semi-open landscapes including edges and clearings in wet and sand-ridge forests, secondary forest, cerrado, gallery forests, in savanna, and plantations of fruit trees like papaya. The black-necked aracari forages in the forest's upper level and the canopy, It mostly feeds on fruit and is important as a disperser of fruit tree seeds.

The cardinal occurs in a wide range of dry to semi-humid open to semi-open habitats in north-eastern Brazil, especially the Caatinga region.

A frugivorous bird, it is easily found in its natural biome wherever there is food enough available, tending to behave aggressively towards other species of birds when disputing for food. Its habitats include shrubby areas that are not forested, including coastal scrub, forest clearing and edge, swamps, gardens, and city parks.

The saffron finch is common in open and semi-open areas in lowlands. It is a gregarious bird that forms small flocks and searches for seeds on the ground.

While essentially a bird of humid forests, it is also common in orchards and parks, where it moves through the canopy.

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This species is found in marshy savannahs, reedbeds and the edges of mangrove swamps. White-headed marsh tyrants wait on an exposed low perch in marsh vegetation or a branch near water, occasionally sallying out to feed on insects.

 Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

 Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical mangrove forests, subtropical or tropical moist shrubland, and heavily degraded former forest.

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