Birds to See in Anguilla in December
16 species listed for December · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
16 bird species on our list for Anguilla are recorded regularly in December. Of these, the most often recorded are Great White Egret, Ruddy Turnstone, Lesser Yellowlegs, Greater Yellowlegs and Cattle Egret. New this month: Western Sandpiper.
New in December1
Leaving after last month4
Residents
(4)Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(2)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(8)Present outside the breeding season
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–May
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Passage migrants
(2)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