Birds of Dominica

Endemic to Dominica

Found in this country and nowhere else on Earth.

• Red-necked AmazonAmazona arausiaca
• Imperial AmazonAmazona imperialis

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
• Kalinago WrenTroglodytes martinicensis
• 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
• Little HeronButorides atricapilla
• 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
• Cocos BoobySula brewsteri
• 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
• Western Cattle EgretArdea ibis
• Eastern Cattle EgretArdea coromanda
• 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
• Common GallinuleGallinula galeata
• American Barn OwlTyto furcata
• Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
• American KestrelFalco sparverius
• Spectacled ThrushTurdus nudigenis
• Lesser Antillean EuphoniaChlorophonia flavifrons
• 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
• Mongolian GullLarus mongolicus
• 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
• Cory's ShearwaterCalonectris borealis
• 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
• Leach's Storm PetrelHydrobates leucorhous
• Hispaniolan EuphoniaChlorophonia musica