Birds to See in Antigua & Barbuda in December
36 species listed for December · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
36 bird species on our list for Antigua & Barbuda are recorded regularly in December. Of these, the most often recorded are Great White Egret, Cattle Egret, Eurasian Collared Dove, White-winged Dove and Lesser Yellowlegs. New this month: Willet, Sanderling and Common Tern.
New in December3
Leaving after last month2
Residents
(7)Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
White-winged Dove
Zenaida asiaticaLC
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
(18)Present outside the breeding season
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jul–May
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Regularly Aug–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Regularly Oct–May
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
Scaly-breasted Munia
Lonchura punctulataLC
Regularly Oct–May
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
Ruddy Duck
Oxyura jamaicensisLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–May
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Nov–Feb
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–Apr
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Aug–May
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Passage migrants
(10)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Apr–Jan
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Mar–Dec
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly Apr–Jan
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citreaLC
Regularly Nov–Dec
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Regularly Dec
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
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