Birds to See in Antigua & Barbuda in April
27 species listed for April · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
27 bird species on our list for Antigua & Barbuda are recorded regularly in April. Of these, the most often recorded are Great White Egret, Cattle Egret, White-winged Dove, Eurasian Collared Dove and Lesser Yellowlegs. New this month: Least Sandpiper, Willet, Short-billed Dowitcher and Solitary Sandpiper.
Leaving after last month6
Residents
(7)Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
White-winged Dove
Zenaida asiaticaLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterusLC
Recorded all year
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(1)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(15)Present outside the breeding season
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jul–May
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Regularly Aug–May
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–May
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Recorded all year
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Ruddy Duck
Oxyura jamaicensisLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–Apr
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Regularly Oct–May
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Scaly-breasted Munia
Lonchura punctulataLC
Regularly Oct–May
Passage migrants
(4)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