Birds of the Turks & Caicos Islands

• Common Ground DoveColumbina passerina
• Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
• Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
• Eastern Cattle EgretArdea coromanda
• American KestrelFalco sparverius
• Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
• BananaquitCoereba flaveola
• Grey KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
• Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
• Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
• Royal TernThalasseus maximus
• Little HeronButorides atricapilla
• Green HeronButorides virescens
• OspreyPandion haliaetus
• Thick-billed VireoVireo crassirostris
• Smooth-billed AniCrotophaga ani
• Great EgretArdea alba
• American FlamingoPhoenicopterus ruber
• Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
• Grey PloverPluvialis squatarola
• KilldeerCharadrius vociferus
• Tricolored HeronEgretta tricolor
• White-crowned PigeonPatagioenas leucocephala
• Bahama WoodstarNesophlox evelynae
• Reddish EgretEgretta rufescens
• White-cheeked PintailAnas bahamensis
• Mangrove WarblerSetophaga petechia
• White-winged DoveZenaida asiatica
• Yellow-crowned Night HeronNyctanassa violacea
• Great Blue HeronArdea herodias
• Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
• Western Cattle EgretArdea ibis
• Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
• Zenaida DoveZenaida aurita
• Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
• Least TernSternula antillarum
• Little Blue HeronEgretta caerulea
• SanderlingCalidris alba
• Bahama MockingbirdMimus gundlachii
• WilletTringa semipalmata
• Belted KingfisherMegaceryle alcyon
• Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
• Snowy EgretEgretta thula
• Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaocto
• Spotted SandpiperActitis macularius
• American OystercatcherHaematopus palliatus
• Cape May WarblerSetophaga tigrina
• Magnificent FrigatebirdFregata magnificens
• Palm WarblerSetophaga palmarum
• Antillean NighthawkChordeiles gundlachii
• Sierra Madre CrowCorvus sierramadrensis
• Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
• Common GallinuleGallinula galeata
• Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseus
• Least GrebeTachybaptus dominicus
• Cuban CrowCorvus nasicus
• Pearly-eyed ThrasherMargarops fuscatus
• Prairie WarblerSetophaga discolor
• Yellow-throated WarblerSetophaga dominica
• Blue-grey GnatcatcherPolioptila caerulea
• Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusilla
• Gull-billed TernGelochelidon nilotica
• Blue-winged TealSpatula discors
• Mongolian GullLarus mongolicus
• White-tailed TropicbirdPhaethon lepturus
• Northern ParulaSetophaga americana
• Mangrove CuckooCoccyzus minor
• American CootFulica americana
• Blackpoll WarblerSetophaga striata
• Clapper RailRallus crepitans
• Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
• Black-faced GrassquitMelanospiza bicolor
• Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
• Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronata
• Grey CatbirdDumetella carolinensis
• MerlinFalco columbarius
• Solitary SandpiperTringa solitaria
• Black-and-white WarblerMniotilta varia
• Barn SwallowHirundo rustica
• Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podiceps
• OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapilla
• Rock DoveColumba livia
• Cocos BoobySula brewsteri
• American RedstartSetophaga ruticilla
• Indigo BuntingPasserina cyanea
• Piping PloverCharadrius melodus
• Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensis
• Northern WaterthrushParkesia noveboracensis
• Eurasian WhimbrelNumenius phaeopus
• Black-whiskered VireoVireo altiloquus
• Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscus
• Neotropic CormorantNannopterum brasilianum
• Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
• Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensis
• House SparrowPasser domesticus
• Brown BoobySula leucogaster
• Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichas
• American Herring GullLarus smithsonianus
• Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticorax
• Brown NoddyAnous stolidus
• Yellow-billed CuckooCoccyzus americanus
• Sooty TernOnychoprion fuscatus
• Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinus
• Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotos
• BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorus
• Bridled TernOnychoprion anaethetus
• Greater Antillean BullfinchMelopyrrha violacea
• Roseate TernSterna dougallii
• White-eyed VireoVireo griseus
• Key West Quail-DoveGeotrygon chrysia
• Black-throated Blue WarblerSetophaga caerulescens
• Red KnotCalidris canutus
• Wilson's SnipeGallinago delicata
• Blue GrosbeakPasserina caerulea
• Red-eyed VireoVireo olivaceus
• SoraPorzana carolina
• American WigeonMareca americana
• Ring-necked DuckAythya collaris
• American White IbisEudocimus albus
• Masked BoobySula dactylatra
• Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnolia
• Eastern Wood PeweeContopus virens
• Red JunglefowlGallus gallus
• Hooded WarblerSetophaga citrina
• Sargasso ShearwaterPuffinus lherminieri
• Yellow-throated VireoVireo flavifrons
• Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus varius
• Common TernSterna hirundo
• American Golden PloverPluvialis dominica
• Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeata
• Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellus
• Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianus
• West Indian Whistling DuckDendrocygna arborea
• Purple MartinProgne subis
• Black-throated Green WarblerSetophaga virens
• Roseate SpoonbillPlatalea ajaja
• Green-winged TealAnas crecca
• Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citrea
• Chuck-will's-widowAntrostomus carolinensis
• Eastern KingbirdTyrannus tyrannus
• American AvocetRecurvirostra americana
• Worm-eating WarblerHelmitheros vermivorum
• White-rumped SandpiperCalidris fuscicollis
• Chestnut-sided WarblerSetophaga pensylvanica
• Great Black-backed GullLarus marinus
• Northern Rough-winged SwallowStelgidopteryx serripennis
• American Barn OwlTyto furcata
• American Cliff SwallowPetrochelidon pyrrhonota
• Northern PintailAnas acuta
• DunlinCalidris alpina
• Tennessee WarblerLeiothlypis peregrina
• Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbula
• Lesser ScaupAythya affinis
• Western SpindalisSpindalis zena
• Hen HarrierCircus cyaneus
• Northern HarrierCircus hudsonius
• Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
• Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
• Blackburnian WarblerSetophaga fusca
• Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
• Blue-winged WarblerVermivora cyanoptera
• Scaly-naped PigeonPatagioenas squamosa
• Double-crested CormorantNannopterum auritum
• Tree SwallowTachycineta bicolor
• Black-capped PetrelPterodroma hasitata
• Forster's TernSterna forsteri
• Louisiana WaterthrushParkesia motacilla
• Caribbean MartinProgne dominicensis
• Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundus
• Caspian TernHydroprogne caspia
• Purple GallinulePorphyrio martinica

Rare visitors

Recorded here, though only as vagrants or rarities.

• Black TernChlidonias niger
• Wilson's PhalaropePhalaropus tricolor
• Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinus
• Fulvous Whistling DuckDendrocygna bicolor
• Red-breasted MerganserMergus serrator
• Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatus
• Swainson's ThrushCatharus ustulatus
• Sand MartinRiparia riparia
• Black-bellied Whistling DuckDendrocygna autumnalis
• Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceus
• Grey-cheeked ThrushCatharus minimus
• Swainson's WarblerLimnothlypis swainsonii
• Red-footed BoobySula sula