Birds of Dominica
Dominica hosts 119 regularly occurring species in this directory, 2 of them found nowhere else. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
Endemic to Dominica
Found in this country and nowhere else on Earth.
All regular species
- BananaquitCoereba flaveola
- Lesser Antillean BullfinchLoxigilla noctis
- Grey KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Antillean Crested HummingbirdOrthorhyncus cristatus
- Black-faced GrassquitMelanospiza bicolor
- Magnificent FrigatebirdFregata magnificens
- Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterus
- Zenaida DoveZenaida aurita
- Caribbean ElaeniaElaenia martinica
- Purple-throated CaribEulampis jugularis
- Red-necked AmazonAmazona arausiaca
- Scaly-breasted ThrasherAllenia fusca
- Plumbeous WarblerSetophaga plumbea
- Green-throated CaribEulampis holosericeus
- Mangrove WarblerSetophaga petechia
- Northern House WrenTroglodytes aedon
- Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
- Scaly-naped PigeonPatagioenas squamosa
- Lesser Antillean FlycatcherMyiarchus oberi
- Lesser Antillean SwiftChaetura martinica
- Black-whiskered VireoVireo altiloquus
- Common Ground DoveColumbina passerina
- Carib GrackleQuiscalus lugubris
- Lesser Antillean SaltatorSaltator albicollis
- Green HeronButorides virescens
- Brown TremblerCinclocerthia ruficauda
- Blue-headed HummingbirdRiccordia bicolor
- Smooth-billed AniCrotophaga ani
- Royal TernThalasseus maximus
- Tropical MockingbirdMimus gilvus
- Pearly-eyed ThrasherMargarops fuscatus
- Mangrove CuckooCoccyzus minor
- Caribbean MartinProgne dominicensis
- Western Red-legged ThrushTurdus plumbeus
- Rufous-throated SolitaireMyadestes genibarbis
- Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
- Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
- Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
- Yellow-crowned Night HeronNyctanassa violacea
- Ringed KingfisherMegaceryle torquata
- Brown BoobySula leucogaster
- Imperial AmazonAmazona imperialis
- Lesser Antillean PeweeContopus latirostris
- Great EgretArdea alba
- Snowy EgretEgretta thula
- OspreyPandion haliaetus
- Rock DoveColumba livia
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
- American Black SwiftCypseloides niger
- MerlinFalco columbarius
- White-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon lepturus
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- American Barn OwlTyto furcata
- Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- Spectacled ThrushTurdus nudigenis
- Forest ThrushTurdus lherminieri
- Scaly-breasted MuniaLonchura punctulata
- Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
- Ruddy Quail-DoveGeotrygon montana
- Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
- Shiny CowbirdMolothrus bonariensis
- Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
- Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
- Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinus
- Red-footed BoobySula sula
- Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
- Roseate TernSterna dougallii
- Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusilla
- Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- Masked BoobySula dactylatra
- American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
- Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
- Solitary SandpiperTringa solitaria
- Muscovy DuckCairina moschata
- Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
- Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
- Sooty TernOnychoprion fuscatus
- Red-billed TropicbirdPhaethon aethereus
- Blue-winged TealSpatula discors
- Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
- Northern WaterthrushParkesia noveboracensis
- Common TernSterna hirundo
- Sand MartinRiparia riparia
- Bridled TernOnychoprion anaethetus
- Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseus
- Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
- Cape May WarblerSetophaga tigrina
- Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotos
- Black-capped PetrelPterodroma hasitata
- Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
- Black-and-white WarblerMniotilta varia
- SanderlingCalidris alba
- Louisiana WaterthrushParkesia motacilla
- American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
- Parasitic JaegerStercorarius parasiticus
- Bridled Quail-DoveGeotrygon mystacea
- Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
- Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
- Blackpoll WarblerSetophaga striata
- Little EgretEgretta garzetta
- Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
- White-rumped SandpiperCalidris fuscicollis
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
- Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
- Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
- Black-throated Green WarblerSetophaga virens
- Hooded WarblerSetophaga citrina
- Least TernSternula antillarum
- White-crowned PigeonPatagioenas leucocephala
- American CootFulica americana
- OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
- Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
- Grey PloverPluvialis squatarola
- WilletTringa semipalmata
- Black TernChlidonias niger
- American Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
- Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnolia
Rare visitors
Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.
- Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
- Northern ParulaSetophaga americana
- SoraPorzana carolina
- Scopoli's ShearwaterCalonectris diomedea
- Manx ShearwaterPuffinus puffinus
- Sargasso ShearwaterPuffinus lherminieri
- American WigeonMareca americana
- Black-throated Blue WarblerSetophaga caerulescens
- BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
- American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
- Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
- Upland SandpiperBartramia longicauda
- Eastern Red-legged ThrushTurdus ardosiaceus