Birds to See in Barbados in August
33 species listed for August · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
33 bird species on our list for Barbados are recorded regularly in August. Of these, the most often recorded are Semipalmated Sandpiper, Semipalmated Plover, Least Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs and Eurasian Collared Dove. New this month: White-rumped Sandpiper, American Golden-Plover, Common Tern and Sandwich Tern.
Leaving after last month
No departures — all species from last month remain.
Residents
(15)Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
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
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Recorded all year
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly May–Mar
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Recorded all year
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Regularly Dec–Aug
Summer visitors
(5)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly Apr–Feb
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Mar–Jan
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna bicolorLC
Regularly May–Mar
Winter visitors
(6)Present outside the breeding season
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Jul–May
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May
American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominicaLC
Regularly Aug–Mar
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Passage migrants
(7)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Jul–Dec
White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollisVU
Regularly Aug–Dec
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Regularly Apr–Oct
Roseate Tern
Sterna dougalliiLC
Regularly Jun–Nov
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Regularly May–Nov
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Aug
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