Birds to See in Aruba in May
32 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
32 bird species on our list for Aruba are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are House Sparrow, Great White Egret, Rock Dove, Sandwich Tern and Barn Swallow. New this month: Rose-ringed Parakeet.
New in May1
Leaving after last month3
Residents
(13)Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Recorded all year
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Burrowing Owl
Athene cuniculariaLC
Recorded all year
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(3)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(12)Present outside the breeding season
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–May
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Sep–May
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly Jul–May
Passage migrants
(4)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