Birds to See in Belize in August
52 species listed for August · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
52 bird species on our list for Belize are recorded regularly in August. Of these, the most often recorded are Golden-fronted Woodpecker, Turkey Vulture, White-winged Dove, Eurasian Collared Dove and Barn Swallow. New this month: American Redstart, Northern Waterthrush, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher and Least Flycatcher and 6 more.
Residents
(27)Recorded all year
Golden-fronted Woodpecker
Melanerpes aurifronsLC
Recorded all year
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes auraLC
Recorded all year
White-winged Dove
Zenaida asiaticaLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Roadside Hawk
Rupornis magnirostrisLC
Recorded all year
Lineated Woodpecker
Dryocopus lineatusLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Acorn Woodpecker
Melanerpes formicivorusLC
Recorded all year
Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
Glaucidium brasilianumLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Red-winged Blackbird
Agelaius phoeniceusLC
Recorded all year
Chipping Sparrow
Spizella passerinaLC
Recorded all year
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Mottled Owl
Strix virgataLC
Recorded all year
Great Curassow
Crax rubraVU
Recorded all year
Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalisLC
Recorded all year
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Recorded all year
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Ladder-backed Woodpecker
Dryobates scalarisLC
Recorded all year
Stygian Owl
Asio stygiusLC
Recorded all year
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Great Horned Owl
Bubo virginianusLC
Regularly May–Mar
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Dendrocygna bicolorLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(1)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(19)Present outside the breeding season
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Least Flycatcher
Empidonax minimusLC
Regularly Aug–May
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Aug–May
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Recorded all year
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Recorded all year
Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
Empidonax flaviventrisLC
Regularly Aug–May
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jul–May
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Long-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus scolopaceusNT
Regularly Aug–Apr
Passage migrants
(5)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