Birds to See in Barbados in September
36 species listed for September · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
36 bird species on our list for Barbados are recorded regularly in September. Of these, the most often recorded are Semipalmated Plover, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Eurasian Collared Dove, Lesser Yellowlegs and Short-billed Dowitcher. New this month: Great Blue Heron, Red Knot, Hudsonian Godwit and Gull-billed Tern and 1 more.
Leaving after last month2
Residents
(14)Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year

Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year

Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year

Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year

Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year

Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year

Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Recorded all year

Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year

Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Recorded all year

Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly May–Mar

Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year

Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Recorded all year

Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year

Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
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

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
(7)Present outside the breeding season
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May

American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominicaLC
Regularly Aug–Mar

Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr

Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Jul–May

Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May

Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Jul–May

Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Sep–May
Passage migrants
(10)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollisVU
Regularly Aug–Dec

Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Jul–Dec

Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Jul–Apr

Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Regularly Apr–Oct

Red Knot
Calidris canutusNT
Regularly Sep–Oct

Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Sep–Oct

Roseate Tern
Sterna dougalliiLC
Regularly Jun–Nov

Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Regularly May–Nov

Upland Sandpiper
Bartramia longicaudaLC
Regularly Sep–Oct

Hudsonian Godwit
Limosa haemasticaVU
Regularly Sep–Nov
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