Birds to See in Cayman Islands in December
54 species listed for December · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
54 bird species on our list for Cayman Islands are recorded regularly in December. Of these, the most often recorded are Palm Warbler, Northern Mockingbird, Great White Egret, Greater Yellowlegs and White-winged Dove. New this month: Red-breasted Merganser.
Residents
(20)Recorded all year
Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottosLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
White-winged Dove
Zenaida asiaticaLC
Recorded all year
Northern Flicker
Colaptes auratusLC
Recorded all year
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Red Junglefowl
Gallus gallusLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Monk Parakeet
Myiopsitta monachusLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(3)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(23)Present outside the breeding season
Palm Warbler
Setophaga palmarumLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Aug–May
Cape May Warbler
Setophaga tigrinaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Gray Catbird
Dumetella carolinensisLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Setophaga caerulescensLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Common Yellowthroat
Geothlypis trichasLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Recorded all year
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Setophaga coronataLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Ovenbird
Seiurus aurocapillaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Northern Shoveler
Spatula clypeataLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Sep–May
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Sphyrapicus variusLC
Regularly Nov–Mar
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Magnolia Warbler
Setophaga magnoliaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
American Avocet
Recurvirostra americanaLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Jul–Apr
Long-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus scolopaceusNT
Regularly Sep–Apr
Black-throated Green Warbler
Setophaga virensLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Passage migrants
(8)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Regularly Mar–Dec
Red-breasted Merganser
Mergus serratorLC
Regularly Dec–Jan
Forster's Tern
Sterna forsteriLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Aug–Dec
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Pheucticus ludovicianusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Eurasian Teal
Anas creccaLC
Regularly Nov–Dec
Tennessee Warbler
Leiothlypis peregrinaLC
Regularly Sep–May
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
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