Birds to See in Aruba in October
44 species listed for October · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
44 bird species on our list for Aruba are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Barn Swallow, House Sparrow, Great White Egret, Greater Yellowlegs and Lesser Yellowlegs. New this month: Merlin, Hudsonian Godwit, Chestnut-sided Warbler and Dickcissel.
New in October4
Leaving after last month2
Residents
(13)Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Burrowing Owl
Athene cuniculariaLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Recorded all year
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(2)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(16)Present outside the breeding season
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–May
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Sep–May
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly Jul–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Jul–Apr
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citreaLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Regularly Jul–Mar
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Passage migrants
(13)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Blackpoll Warbler
Setophaga striataNT
Regularly Apr–Dec
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Aug–Dec
Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Regularly Aug–May
White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollisVU
Regularly Apr–Nov
Bobolink
Dolichonyx oryzivorusLC
Regularly Sep–Oct
American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominicaLC
Regularly Sep–Dec
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Calidris subruficollisVU
Regularly Sep–Oct
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–Nov
Hudsonian Godwit
Limosa haemasticaVU
Regularly Oct–Nov
Upland Sandpiper
Bartramia longicaudaLC
Regularly Sep–Oct
Purple Martin
Progne subisLC
Regularly Sep–Oct
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Setophaga pensylvanicaLC
Regularly Oct–Nov
Dickcissel
Spiza americanaLC
Regularly Oct
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