Birds to See in Anguilla in May
19 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
19 bird species on our list for Anguilla are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are White-winged Dove, Least Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Lesser Yellowlegs and Willet. New this month: Eurasian Collared Dove, Short-billed Dowitcher, Roseate Tern and Osprey and 1 more.
Leaving after last month
No departures — all species from last month remain.
Residents
(4)Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(5)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(7)Present outside the breeding season
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–May
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Passage migrants
(3)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