Uncommon Birds in Barbados
Our list for Barbados has 24 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 1 resident, 4 winter visitors, 16 passage migrants and 3 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Barbados in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 24, most common first
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Sand Martin 12–14 cm
- Northern Waterthrush 12–15 cm
- Prothonotary Warbler 13–14 cm
- Blackpoll Warbler 13–15 cm
- Bobolink 16–20 cm
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper 18–20 cm
- Pacific Golden-Plover 23–26 cm
- Ruff 20–32 cm
- Long-billed Dowitcher 27–30 cm
- Merlin 24–33 cm
- Upland Sandpiper 28–32 cm
- Common Tern 31–35 cm
- Eurasian Teal 34–38 cm
- Gull-billed Tern 33–42 cm
- Sandwich Tern 36–41 cm
- Hudsonian Godwit 36–42 cm
- Ruddy Duck 35–43 cm
- Black-headed Gull 38–44 cm
- Northern Shoveler 44–51 cm
- Lesser Black-backed Gull 52–64 cm
- Red Junglefowl 42–75 cm
- Northern Pintail 59–76 cm
- Muscovy Duck 66–84 cm
- Grey Heron 90–98 cm
Body length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
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