Common Birds in Aruba
Our list for Aruba has 31 common birds recorded regularly there: 13 residents, 2 summer visitors, 12 winter visitors and 4 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Aruba in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 31, most common first
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
Great White EgretArdea albaResidentCommon80–104 cmRecorded all year
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisResidentCommon36–41 cmRecorded all year
Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusillaWinter visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly Jul–May
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipesWinter visitorCommon23–27 cmRecorded all year
OspreyPandion haliaetusWinter visitorCommon54–58 cmRecorded all year
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleucaResidentCommon29–40 cmRecorded all year
Rock DoveColumba liviaResidentCommon29–37 cmRecorded all year
Common TernSterna hirundoSummer visitorCommon31–35 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Great Blue HeronArdea herodiasWinter visitorCommon91–137 cmRecorded all year
Least SandpiperCalidris minutillaWinter visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Jul–May
Burrowing OwlAthene cuniculariaResidentCommon19–25 cmRecorded all year
Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatusResidentCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
Grey PloverPluvialis squatarolaResidentCommon27–30 cmRecorded all year
Blackpoll WarblerSetophaga striataPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Dec
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusResidentCommon40–46 cmRecorded all year
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpresResidentCommon21–24 cmRecorded all year
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podicepsResidentCommon31–38 cmRecorded all year
Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotosPassage migrantCommon19–23 cmRegularly Aug–Dec
Northern WaterthrushParkesia noveboracensisWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Sep–May
Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinusWinter visitorCommon34–58 cmRegularly Sep–May
Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticoraxResidentCommon58–65 cmRecorded all year
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