Birds to See in Anguilla in October
29 species listed for October · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
29 bird species on our list for Anguilla are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Lesser Yellowlegs, Greater Yellowlegs, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Least Sandpiper and Barn Swallow. New this month: Cattle Egret, Great Blue Heron, Osprey and American Golden-Plover and 7 more.
New in October11
Leaving after last month1
Residents
(4)Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(3)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
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–May
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Passage migrants
(13)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Aug–Jan
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly May–Feb
White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollisVU
Regularly Aug–Nov
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Aug–Oct
American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominicaLC
Regularly Oct
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Regularly Oct
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Oct–Dec
Blackpoll Warbler
Setophaga striataNT
Regularly Oct
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Regularly Oct–May
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Jul–Oct
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Oct–May
Scarce visitors
(1)Recorded in some years but not every year
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