Birds to See in Bermuda in March
59 species listed for March · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
59 bird species on our list for Bermuda are recorded regularly in March. Of these, the most often recorded are Common Starling, House Sparrow, Mourning Dove, American Crow and Northern Cardinal. New this month: Glossy Ibis, Red-winged Blackbird and Orange-crowned Warbler.
Residents
(15)Recorded all year
Common Starling
Sturnus vulgarisLC
Recorded all year

House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year

Mourning Dove
Zenaida macrouraLC
Recorded all year

American Crow
Corvus brachyrhynchosLC
Recorded all year

Northern Cardinal
Cardinalis cardinalisLC
Recorded all year

European Goldfinch
Carduelis carduelisLC
Recorded all year

Mallard
Anas platyrhynchosLC
Recorded all year

Gray Catbird
Dumetella carolinensisLC
Recorded all year

Eastern Bluebird
Sialia sialisLC
Recorded all year

Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year

Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year

Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year

Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year

Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year

Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Winter visitors
(35)Present outside the breeding season
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Recorded all year

Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Aug–May

Ovenbird
Seiurus aurocapillaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr

Palm Warbler
Setophaga palmarumLC
Regularly Oct–Apr

Common Yellowthroat
Geothlypis trichasLC
Regularly Sep–Apr

Eurasian Teal
Anas creccaLC
Regularly Sep–May

Yellow-rumped Warbler
Setophaga coronataLC
Regularly Oct–Apr

American Herring Gull
Larus smithsonianusLC
Regularly Sep–May

American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Aug–Apr

Ring-billed Gull
Larus delawarensisLC
Regularly Oct–Apr

Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Regularly Sep–May

Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jul–May

Northern Pintail
Anas acutaLC
Regularly Nov–Apr

Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Jul–May

Cape May Warbler
Setophaga tigrinaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr

Bonaparte's Gull
Chroicocephalus philadelphiaLC
Regularly Nov–Mar

Great Black-backed Gull
Larus marinusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr

Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Sep–May

Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Jul–May

Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Regularly Oct–May

Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Aug–May

Hooded Merganser
Lophodytes cucullatusLC
Regularly Nov–Mar

Northern Shoveler
Spatula clypeataLC
Regularly Oct–Mar

Black-throated Green Warbler
Setophaga virensLC
Regularly Sep–Apr

Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Sep–May

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Sphyrapicus variusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar

American Black Duck
Anas rubripesLC
Regularly Nov–May

Cedar Waxwing
Bombycilla cedrorumLC
Regularly Sep–May

Piping Plover
Charadrius melodusNT
Regularly Aug–Mar

Black-throated Blue Warbler
Setophaga caerulescensLC
Regularly Sep–Apr

Hermit Thrush
Catharus guttatusLC
Regularly Nov–Mar

Nashville Warbler
Leiothlypis ruficapillaLC
Regularly Sep–Mar

Black-headed Gull
Chroicocephalus ridibundusLC
Regularly Dec–Mar

Magnolia Warbler
Setophaga magnoliaLC
Regularly Sep–May

Wood Duck
Aix sponsaLC
Regularly Oct–May
Passage migrants
(8)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Manx Shearwater
Puffinus puffinusLC
Regularly Feb–Jun

Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly Aug–May

Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–Apr

Canada Goose
Branta canadensisLC
Regularly Feb–Mar

Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Regularly Oct–May

American Robin
Turdus migratoriusLC
Regularly Nov–Mar

Purple Martin
Progne subisLC
Regularly Feb–Sep

Orange-crowned Warbler
Leiothlypis celataLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Scarce visitors
(1)Recorded in some years but not every yearData: 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
