Bird Watching St Barts
Birding / Bird Watching on St Barts
For the bird watchers coming to St Barts we’ve gathered some information and photos that will hopefully help you get started.
There are also several SBHonline forum members that have a lot of experience birding on the island… so if you have any questions you may be able to get them answered in the St Barts discussion forums.
Here are a few links and “bird watching” snippets:
Birds of St Barthelemy Photo Galleryexternal site
Excellent collection of photos taken by an SBHonline forum member.
Birds of St Barts Field Guideexternal site
Really nice photographs of the birds of St Barts (Rebecca Field Photography)
Birding St Barts SBHonline Forum Discussion
Birds Seen On St Barts
| St Barts | Number of Species: 153 Introduced Species: 3 | See also: inpn.mnhn.fr/especes Sourced: avibase.bsc-eoc.org |
|---|---|---|
| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna autumnalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Fulvous Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna bicolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Muscovy Duck | Cairina moschata | Introduced species |
| Wood Duck | Aix sponsa | Rare/Accidental |
| American Wigeon | Anas americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-winged Teal | Anas discors | |
| Northern Shoveler | Anas clypeata | Rare/Accidental |
| White-cheeked Pintail | Anas bahamensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | Rare/Accidental |
| Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | Rare/Accidental |
| Hooded Merganser | Lophodytes cucullatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | Rare/Accidental |
| PODICIPEDIFORMES: Podicipedidae | ||
| Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | |
| PROCELLARIIFORMES: Procellariidae | ||
| Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | |
| Audubon's Shearwater | Puffinus lherminieri | Rare/Accidental |
| PROCELLARIIFORMES: Hydrobatidae | ||
| Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Leach's Storm-Petrel | Oceanodroma leucorhoa | Rare/Accidental |
| PHAETHONTIFORMES: Phaethontidae | ||
| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | |
| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | |
| SULIFORMES: Fregatidae | ||
| Magnificent Frigatebird | Fregata magnificens | |
| SULIFORMES: Sulidae | ||
| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | Rare/Accidental |
| SULIFORMES: Phalacrocoracidae | ||
| Neotropic Cormorant | Phalacrocorax brasilianus | Rare/Accidental |
| PELECANIFORMES: Pelecanidae | ||
| Brown Pelican | Pelecanus occidentalis | |
| PELECANIFORMES: Ardeidae | ||
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | Rare/Accidental |
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | |
| Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | |
| Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Green Heron | Butorides virescens | |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Nyctanassa violacea | |
| PELECANIFORMES: Threskiornithidae | ||
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | |
| Roseate Spoonbill | Platalea ajaja | Rare/Accidental |
| ACCIPITRIFORMES: Pandionidae | ||
| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | Rare/Accidental |
| ACCIPITRIFORMES: Accipitridae | ||
| Red-tailed Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis | |
| GRUIFORMES: Rallidae | ||
| Clapper Rail | Rallus crepitans | Rare/Accidental |
| Sora | Porzana carolina | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Gallinule | Gallinula galeata | |
| American Coot | Fulica americana | Rare/Accidental |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Recurvirostridae | ||
| Black-necked Stilt | Himantopus mexicanus | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Haematopodidae | ||
| American Oystercatcher | Haematopus palliatus | Rare/Accidental |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Charadriidae | ||
| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| American Golden-Plover | Pluvialis dominica | Rare/Accidental |
| Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Wilson's Plover | Charadrius wilsonia | |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | |
| Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Scolopacidae | ||
| Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | Rare/Accidental |
| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Limosa haemastica | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | Near-threatened |
| Western Sandpiper | Calidris mauri | |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | Rare/Accidental |
| Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | |
| Willet | Tringa semipalmata | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Stercorariidae | ||
| Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | Rare/Accidental |
| CHARADRIIFORMES: Laridae | ||
| Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | |
| Franklin's Gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Herring Gull | Larus argentatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | Rare/Accidental |
| Least Tern | Sternula antillarum | Rare/Accidental |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | Rare/Accidental |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | Rare/Accidental |
| Royal Tern | Thalasseus maximus | |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | Rare/Accidental |
| COLUMBIFORMES: Columbidae | ||
| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | |
| Scaly-naped Pigeon | Patagioenas squamosa | |
| White-crowned Pigeon | Patagioenas leucocephala | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | Introduced species |
| Common Ground-Dove | Columbina passerina | |
| Bridled Quail-Dove | Geotrygon mystacea | |
| White-winged Dove | Zenaida asiatica | |
| Zenaida Dove | Zenaida aurita | |
| CUCULIFORMES: Cuculidae | ||
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Mangrove Cuckoo | Coccyzus minor | |
| STRIGIFORMES: Strigidae | ||
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | Rare/Accidental |
| CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Caprimulgidae | ||
| Common Nighthawk | Chordeiles minor | Rare/Accidental |
| Antillean Nighthawk | Chordeiles gundlachii | Rare/Accidental |
| Chuck-will's-widow | Antrostomus carolinensis | Rare/Accidental |
| CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Apodidae | ||
| Black Swift | Cypseloides niger | Rare/Accidental |
| CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Trochilidae | ||
| Purple-throated Carib | Eulampis jugularis | |
| Green-throated Carib | Eulampis holosericeus | |
| Antillean Crested Hummingbird | Orthorhyncus cristatus | |
| CORACIIFORMES: Alcedinidae | ||
| Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | |
| PICIFORMES: Picidae | ||
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Sphyrapicus varius | Rare/Accidental |
| FALCONIFORMES: Falconidae | ||
| American Kestrel | Falco sparverius | |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | Rare/Accidental |
| PASSERIFORMES: Tyrannidae | ||
| Caribbean Elaenia | Elaenia martinica | |
| Gray Kingbird | Tyrannus dominicensis | |
| Fork-tailed Flycatcher | Tyrannus savana | Rare/Accidental |
| PASSERIFORMES: Vireonidae | ||
| Black-whiskered Vireo | Vireo altiloquus | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Hirundinidae | ||
| Caribbean Martin | Progne dominicensis | |
| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | Rare/Accidental |
| PASSERIFORMES: Mimidae | ||
| Scaly-breasted Thrasher | Allenia fusca | |
| Pearly-eyed Thrasher | Margarops fuscatus | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Parulidae | ||
| Ovenbird | Seiurus aurocapilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Worm-eating Warbler | Helmitheros vermivorum | Rare/Accidental |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | Parkesia motacilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Waterthrush | Parkesia noveboracensis | |
| Blue-winged Warbler | Vermivora cyanoptera | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia | |
| Prothonotary Warbler | Protonotaria citrea | Rare/Accidental |
| Connecticut Warbler | Oporornis agilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Hooded Warbler | Setophaga citrina | Rare/Accidental |
| American Redstart | Setophaga ruticilla | |
| Cape May Warbler | Setophaga tigrina | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Parula | Setophaga americana | |
| Magnolia Warbler | Setophaga magnolia | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow Warbler | Setophaga petechia | |
| Blackpoll Warbler | Setophaga striata | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | Setophaga caerulescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Prairie Warbler | Setophaga discolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | Setophaga virens | Rare/Accidental |
| PASSERIFORMES: Thraupidae | ||
| Bananaquit | Coereba flaveola | |
| Black-faced Grassquit | Tiaris bicolor | |
| Lesser Antillean Bullfinch | Loxigilla noctis | |
| PASSERIFORMES: Cardinalidae | ||
| Summer Tanager | Piranga rubra | Rare/Accidental |
| Scarlet Tanager | Piranga olivacea | Rare/Accidental |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Pheucticus ludovicianus | Rare/Accidental |
| PASSERIFORMES: Icteridae | ||
| Bobolink | Dolichonyx oryzivorus | Rare/Accidental |
| Carib Grackle | Quiscalus lugubris | |
| Baltimore Oriole | Icterus galbula | Rare/Accidental |
| PASSERIFORMES: Fringillidae | ||
| Antillean Euphonia | Euphonia musica | Rare/Accidental |
| PASSERIFORMES: Passeridae | ||
| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
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