Birds to See in Antigua & Barbuda in October
30 species listed for October · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
30 bird species on our list for Antigua & Barbuda are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Great White Egret, Cattle Egret, Semipalmated Sandpiper, White-winged Dove and Lesser Yellowlegs. New this month: Osprey, Great Blue Heron, Pied-billed Grebe and Scaly-breasted Munia and 8 more.
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
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Recorded all year
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterusLC
Recorded all year
Winter visitors
(14)Present outside the breeding season
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jul–May
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Regularly Aug–May
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Ruddy Duck
Oxyura jamaicensisLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Regularly Oct–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–Apr
Scaly-breasted Munia
Lonchura punctulataLC
Regularly Oct–May
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Passage migrants
(9)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Mar–Dec
Blackpoll Warbler
Setophaga striataNT
Regularly Oct–Nov
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly Apr–Jan
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Apr–Jan
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Oct
Helmeted Guineafowl
Numida meleagrisLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominicaLC
Regularly Oct
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