Birds to See in Barbados in February
32 species listed for February · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
32 bird species on our list for Barbados are recorded regularly in February. Of these, the most often recorded are Eurasian Collared Dove, Cattle Egret, Rock Dove, Least Sandpiper and Great White Egret. New this month: Whimbrel.
New in February1
Leaving after last month5
Residents
(15)Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
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
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Jul–May
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominicaLC
Regularly Aug–Mar
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Dec–Jun
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May
Passage migrants
(1)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