Birds to See in Anguilla in August
20 species listed for August · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
20 bird species on our list for Anguilla are recorded regularly in August. Of these, the most often recorded are Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Greater Yellowlegs, Least Sandpiper and White-winged Dove. New this month: Barn Swallow, Stilt Sandpiper, Sanderling and Short-billed Dowitcher and 2 more.
New in August6
Leaving after last month1
Residents
(4)Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(4)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(7)Present outside the breeding season
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–May
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Passage migrants
(5)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made