The Motagua Valley thornscrub forms a habitat for 75 bird species, mainly Columbidae, Tyrannidae, Icteridae and Fringillidae, and it is the only place in Central America where Momotus mexicanus lives.
Pinicola Vieillot, 1808 (Aves, Fringillidae) makes the name Pinicola Brébisson, 1818 a junior homonym and therefore unavailable for a genus of Xyelidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera).
The Trias Greenfinch (Carduelis triasi) is an extinct passerine from the family of Finches (Fringillidae).
Yellow-collared Chlorophonia, a South American bird in the Fringillidae family