Birds to See in Barbados in April
29 species listed for April · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
29 bird species on our list for Barbados are recorded regularly in April. Of these, the most often recorded are Cattle Egret, Eurasian Collared Dove, Semipalmated Plover, Least Sandpiper and Greater Yellowlegs. New this month: Short-billed Dowitcher, Whimbrel and Willet.
Residents
(14)Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Recorded all year
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Regularly Dec–Aug
Summer visitors
(4)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(9)Present outside the breeding season
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Jul–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Sep–May
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Dec–Jun
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Passage migrants
(2)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