Birds to See in Barbados in December
37 species listed for December · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
37 bird species on our list for Barbados are recorded regularly in December. Of these, the most often recorded are Eurasian Collared Dove, Cattle Egret, Greater Yellowlegs, Great White Egret and Lesser Yellowlegs. New this month: Whimbrel, Muscovy Duck, Grey Heron and Prothonotary Warbler.
New in December4
Leaving after last month5
Residents
(15)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
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Recorded all year
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Recorded all year
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly May–Mar
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Regularly Dec–Aug
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(4)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(12)Present outside the breeding season
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Sep–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Jul–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominicaLC
Regularly Aug–Mar
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Dec–Jun
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Passage migrants
(6)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Eurasian Teal
Anas creccaLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Northern Pintail
Anas acutaLC
Regularly Nov–Dec
White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollisVU
Regularly Aug–Dec
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Jul–Dec
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citreaLC
Regularly Oct–Jan
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
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