Birds to See in Antigua & Barbuda in September
19 species listed for September · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
19 bird species on our list for Antigua & Barbuda are recorded regularly in September. Of these, the most often recorded are Great White Egret, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Cattle Egret, Lesser Yellowlegs and Semipalmated Plover. New this month: Barn Swallow and White-rumped Sandpiper.
New in September2
Leaving after last month
No departures — all species from last month remain.
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
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterusLC
Recorded all year
Winter visitors
(7)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
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–Apr
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Regularly Aug–May
Passage migrants
(5)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