Birds to See in Antigua & Barbuda in March
29 species listed for March · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
29 bird species on our list for Antigua & Barbuda are recorded regularly in March. Of these, the most often recorded are Great White Egret, White-winged Dove, Cattle Egret, Eurasian Collared Dove and Lesser Yellowlegs. New this month: Barn Swallow, Northern Waterthrush, Merlin and Whimbrel and 2 more.
Leaving after last month4
Residents
(7)Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
White-winged Dove
Zenaida asiaticaLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterusLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Recorded all year
Winter visitors
(16)Present outside the breeding season
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jul–May
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Regularly Aug–May
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
Ruddy Duck
Oxyura jamaicensisLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Regularly Oct–May
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Recorded all year
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–Apr
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
Scaly-breasted Munia
Lonchura punctulataLC
Regularly Oct–May
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Aug–May
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Passage migrants
(6)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Mar–Dec
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
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