Birds to See in Anguilla in January
20 species listed for January · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
20 bird species on our list for Anguilla are recorded regularly in January. Of these, the most often recorded are Lesser Yellowlegs, Greater Yellowlegs, Ruddy Turnstone, Great White Egret and Grey Plover. New this month: Short-billed Dowitcher, Osprey, Pied-billed Grebe and Northern Waterthrush and 1 more.
New in January5
Leaving after last month1
Residents
(4)Recorded all yearSummer visitors
(2)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winterWinter 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

Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Aug–May

Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May

Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May

Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–May

Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Passage migrants
(6)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Aug–Jan

Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Regularly Oct–May

Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Oct–May

Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly May–Feb

Yellow-rumped Warbler
Setophaga coronataLC
Regularly Jan

Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Jan
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





