Birds of the Turks & Caicos Islands
The Turks & Caicos Islands hosts 161 regularly occurring species in this directory. Ordered by how often each bird is reported in the country.
- Common Ground DoveColumbina passerina
- Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
- Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottos
- American KestrelFalco sparverius
- Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
- BananaquitCoereba flaveola
- Grey KingbirdTyrannus dominicensis
- Mourning DoveZenaida macroura
- Brown PelicanPelecanus occidentalis
- Royal TernThalasseus maximus
- 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
- 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
- Common MoorhenGallinula chloropus
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivacea
- Summer TanagerPiranga rubra
- Blackburnian WarblerSetophaga fusca
- Common NighthawkChordeiles minor
- Blue-winged WarblerVermivora cyanoptera
- Scaly-naped PigeonPatagioenas squamosa
- 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