Birds to See in Barbados in May
28 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
28 bird species on our list for Barbados are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are Eurasian Collared Dove, Cattle Egret, Semipalmated Plover, Greater Yellowlegs and Semipalmated Sandpiper. New this month: Fulvous Whistling-Duck, Glossy Ibis and Common Tern.
New in May3
Leaving after last month4
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
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly May–Mar
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Regularly Dec–Aug
Summer visitors
(5)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Recorded all year
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly Apr–Feb
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna bicolorLC
Regularly May–Mar
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Mar–Jan
Winter visitors
(6)Present outside the breeding season
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Jul–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Sep–May
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Dec–Jun
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