Birds to See in Barbados in October
46 species listed for October · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
46 bird species on our list for Barbados are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Semipalmated Plover, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Cattle Egret, Eurasian Collared Dove and Greater Yellowlegs. New this month: Peregrine Falcon, Ruff, Bobolink and Lesser Black-backed Gull and 6 more.
New in October10
Leaving after last month
No departures — all species from last month remain.
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
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Recorded all year
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly May–Mar
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
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
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Mar–Jan
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly Apr–Feb
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna bicolorLC
Regularly May–Mar
Winter visitors
(10)Present outside the breeding season
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominicaLC
Regularly Aug–Mar
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Jul–May
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Sep–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Jul–May
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Passage migrants
(17)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
Hudsonian Godwit
Limosa haemasticaVU
Regularly Sep–Nov
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Regularly May–Nov
Bobolink
Dolichonyx oryzivorusLC
Regularly Oct
Blackpoll Warbler
Setophaga striataNT
Regularly Oct
Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Regularly Oct–Nov
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Regularly Apr–Oct
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Calidris subruficollisVU
Regularly Oct
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Sep–Oct
Northern Shoveler
Spatula clypeataLC
Regularly Oct
Roseate Tern
Sterna dougalliiLC
Regularly Jun–Nov
Upland Sandpiper
Bartramia longicaudaLC
Regularly Sep–Oct
Red Knot
Calidris canutusNT
Regularly Sep–Oct
Ruff
Calidris pugnaxLC
Regularly Oct–Jan
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citreaLC
Regularly Oct–Jan
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