Birds to See in Antigua & Barbuda in May
24 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
24 bird species on our list for Antigua & Barbuda are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are White-winged Dove, Great White Egret, Cattle Egret, Broad-winged Hawk and Eurasian Collared Dove.
New in May
No new arrivals this month.
Leaving after last month3
Residents
(7)Recorded all year
White-winged Dove
Zenaida asiaticaLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterusLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(1)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(13)Present outside the breeding season
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Regularly Aug–May
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jul–May
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
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Regularly Oct–May
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Scaly-breasted Munia
Lonchura punctulataLC
Regularly Oct–May
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
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