Birds of the Bahamas
The Bahamas hosts 300 regularly occurring species in this directory, 5 of them found nowhere else. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
Endemic to the Bahamas
Found in this country and nowhere else on Earth.
All regular species
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- Common Ground DoveColumbina passerina
- White-crowned PigeonPatagioenas leucocephala
- Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Palm WarblerSetophaga palmarum
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
- Smooth-billed AniCrotophaga ani
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- Thick-billed VireoVireo crassirostris
- BananaquitCoereba flaveola
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Western Red-legged ThrushTurdus plumbeus
- Grey KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Turkey VultureCathartes aura
- Grey CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Prairie WarblerSetophaga discolor
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Bahama WoodstarNesophlox evelynae
- Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceus
- Black-faced GrassquitMelanospiza bicolor
- Cape May WarblerSetophaga tigrina
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- Northern ParulaSetophaga americana
- KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
- House SparrowPasser domesticus
- La Sagra's FlycatcherMyiarchus sagrae
- Yellow-crowned Night HeronNyctanassa violacea
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- Yellow-throated WarblerSetophaga dominica
- Greater Antillean BullfinchMelopyrrha violacea
- Least GrebeTachybaptus dominicus
- Royal TernThalasseus maximus
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Black-and-white WarblerMniotilta varia
- Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
- Cuban EmeraldRiccordia ricordii
- American CootFulica americana
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Bahama MockingbirdMimus gundlachii
- Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronata
- Grey PloverPluvialis squatarola
- Blue-winged TealSpatula discors
- White-cheeked PintailAnas bahamensis
- Loggerhead KingbirdTyrannus caudifasciatus
- Northern WaterthrushParkesia noveboracensis
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- Western SpindalisSpindalis zena
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Black-throated Blue WarblerSetophaga caerulescens
- Blue-grey GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Magnificent FrigatebirdFregata magnificens
- Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
- Hairy WoodpeckerLeuconotopicus villosus
- American White IbisEudocimus albus
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Cuban PeweeContopus caribaeus
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Black-whiskered VireoVireo altiloquus
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- Mangrove WarblerSetophaga petechia
- Antillean NighthawkChordeiles gundlachii
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
- Pine WarblerSetophaga pinus
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Reddish EgretEgretta rufescens
- Painted BuntingPasserina ciris
- Common StarlingSturnus vulgaris
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensis
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Bahama SwallowTachycineta cyaneoviridis
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
- Zenaida DoveZenaida aurita
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Muscovy DuckCairina moschata
- Caribbean DoveLeptotila jamaicensis
- West Indian WoodpeckerMelanerpes superciliaris
- WilletTringa semipalmata
- Mangrove CuckooCoccyzus minor
- Cuban GrassquitPhonipara canora
- Bahama YellowthroatGeothlypis rostrata
- Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
- Cuban AmazonAmazona leucocephala
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
- LimpkinAramus guarauna
- Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
- Clapper RailRallus crepitans
- White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
- American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
- Solitary SandpiperTringa solitaria
- Olive-capped WarblerSetophaga pityophila
- Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum
- Blackpoll WarblerSetophaga striata
- Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
- Pied Imperial PigeonDucula bicolor
- Boat-tailed GrackleQuiscalus major
- Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusilla
- Brown BoobySula leucogaster
- Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
- Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnolia
- Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseus
- Black-throated Green WarblerSetophaga virens
- White-winged DoveZenaida asiatica
- Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
- Bahama WarblerSetophaga flavescens
- Yellow-throated VireoVireo flavifrons
- Monk ParakeetMyiopsitta monachus
- Red JunglefowlGallus gallus
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- MallardAnas platyrhynchos
- Bahama OrioleIcterus northropi
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- American FlamingoPhoenicopterus ruber
- Red-eyed VireoVireo olivaceus
- BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
- Burrowing OwlAthene cunicularia
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Inagua WoodstarNesophlox lyrura
- Hooded WarblerSetophaga citrina
- White-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon lepturus
- West Indian Whistling DuckDendrocygna arborea
- American WigeonMareca americana
- Pearly-eyed ThrasherMargarops fuscatus
- Key West Quail-DoveGeotrygon chrysia
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
- Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
- Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
- Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
- Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotos
- Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
- Roseate SpoonbillPlatalea ajaja
- Chuck-will's-widowAntrostomus carolinensis
- Black-bellied Whistling DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
- Bridled TernOnychoprion anaethetus
- Northern BobwhiteColinus virginianus
- Sooty TernOnychoprion fuscatus
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
- Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
- Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
- Louisiana WaterthrushParkesia motacilla
- Sargasso ShearwaterPuffinus lherminieri
- Eastern Wood PeweeContopus virens
- Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Kirtland's WarblerSetophaga kirtlandii
- Green-winged TealAnas crecca
- Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
- Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
- Eastern PhoebeSayornis phoebe
- American Barn OwlTyto furcata
- Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubris
- Hen HarrierCircus cyaneus
- Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
- Roseate TernSterna dougallii
- Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
- Shiny CowbirdMolothrus bonariensis
- Purple MartinProgne subis
- Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphia
- American BitternBotaurus lentiginosus
- Tennessee WarblerLeiothlypis peregrina
- Forster's TernSterna forsteri
- Northern PintailAnas acuta
- Black SkimmerRynchops niger
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
- Swainson's ThrushCatharus ustulatus
- Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
- Savannah SparrowPasserculus sandwichensis
- Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Western KingbirdTyrannus verticalis
- American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
- Masked BoobySula dactylatra
- Chestnut-sided WarblerSetophaga pensylvanica
- Nashville WarblerLeiothlypis ruficapilla
- Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
- Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica
- Canada GooseBranta canadensis
- Sulphur-crested CockatooCacatua galerita
- White-rumped SandpiperCalidris fuscicollis
- Black VultureCoragyps atratus
- DunlinCalidris alpina
- Red KnotCalidris canutus
- Fish CrowCorvus ossifragus
- Indian PeafowlPavo cristatus
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia
- AnhingaAnhinga anhinga
- Swallow-tailed KiteElanoides forficatus
- American White PelicanPelecanus erythrorhynchos
- American PipitAnthus rubescens
- Blackburnian WarblerSetophaga fusca
- Brown-headed CowbirdMolothrus ater
- Upland SandpiperBartramia longicauda
- GadwallMareca strepera
- Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorum
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora cyanoptera
- American Black DuckAnas rubripes
- Clay-colored SparrowSpizella pallida
- Wood DuckAix sponsa
- American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
- Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatus
- Snow GooseAnser caerulescens
- Rosy-faced LovebirdAgapornis roseicollis
- BuffleheadBucephala albeola
- Blue-headed VireoVireo solitarius
- Grey-cheeked ThrushCatharus minimus
- American Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolnii
- Bay-breasted WarblerSetophaga castanea
- Bahama NuthatchSitta insularis
- Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
- Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifrons
- White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrys
- Chimney SwiftChaetura pelagica
- Wilson's Storm PetrelOceanites oceanicus
- Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
- Scissor-tailed FlycatcherTyrannus forficatus
- Wilson's WarblerCardellina pusilla
- VeeryCatharus fuscescens
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Lark SparrowChondestes grammacus
- American RobinTurdus migratorius
- Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatus
- RedheadAythya americana
- Black-capped PetrelPterodroma hasitata
- Orange-crowned WarblerLeiothlypis celata
- Northern GannetMorus bassanus
- Wood ThrushHylocichla mustelina
- Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinus
- Scaly-naped PigeonPatagioenas squamosa
- Canada WarblerCardellina canadensis
- Philadelphia VireoVireo philadelphicus
- Wood StorkMycteria americana
- Kentucky WarblerGeothlypis formosa
- Cave SwallowPetrochelidon fulva
- Buff-breasted SandpiperCalidris subruficollis
- Chipping SparrowSpizella passerina
- Grasshopper SparrowAmmodramus savannarum
- Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
- Scopoli's ShearwaterCalonectris diomedea
- Fulvous Whistling DuckDendrocygna bicolor
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- Red-footed BoobySula sula
- Brown ThrasherToxostoma rufum
- Mottled DuckAnas fulvigula
- Wilson's PhalaropePhalaropus tricolor
- Fork-tailed FlycatcherTyrannus savana
- DickcisselSpiza americana
- Hudsonian GodwitLimosa haemastica
- Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgiana
- Black KiteMilvus migrans
- White-faced IbisPlegadis chihi
- Yellow-breasted ChatIcteria virens
- Connecticut WarblerOporornis agilis
- Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitus
- Yellow-headed BlackbirdXanthocephalus xanthocephalus
- Red-crested PochardNetta rufina
- Golden-winged WarblerVermivora chrysoptera
- Warbling VireoVireo gilvus
- Orchard OrioleIcterus spurius
- Acadian FlycatcherEmpidonax virescens
- Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatus
- Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiaca
- Marbled GodwitLimosa fedoa
- Parasitic JaegerStercorarius parasiticus
- Antillean Palm SwiftTachornis phoenicobia
- Greater ScaupAythya marila
- Red-billed TropicbirdPhaethon aethereus
- Flammulated OwlPsiloscops flammeolus
- Common PheasantPhasianus colchicus
- Ringed TealCallonetta leucophrys
- Dark-eyed JuncoJunco hyemalis
- Cinnamon TealSpatula cyanoptera
- Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalus
- Northern House WrenTroglodytes aedon
- Arctic TernSterna paradisaea
- Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmus
- Sprague's PipitAnthus spragueii
- Trindade PetrelPterodroma arminjoniana
- Eastern BluebirdSialia sialis
- Rose-ringed ParakeetPsittacula krameri
- RuffCalidris pugnax
- Scaly-breasted MuniaLonchura punctulata
- Eastern Whip-poor-willAntrostomus vociferus
- Blue-and-yellow MacawAra ararauna
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
- White-throated SparrowZonotrichia albicollis
- Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineus
- Virginia RailRallus limicola
- Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorum
- Olive-sided FlycatcherContopus cooperi
- Short-eared OwlAsio flammeus
- African Collared DoveStreptopelia roseogrisea
- Military MacawAra militaris
- Horned LarkEremophila alpestris
- Bell's VireoVireo bellii
- Grass WrenCistothorus platensis
- Brown-crested FlycatcherMyiarchus tyrannulus
- Ross's GooseAnser rossii
- Yellow-chevroned ParakeetBrotogeris chiriri
- Chukar PartridgeAlectoris chukar
- Chestnut-fronted MacawAra severus
- Tricolored MuniaLonchura malacca