Uncommon Birds in Cayman Islands
Our list for Cayman Islands has 41 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 4 residents, 2 summer visitors, 10 winter visitors, 20 passage migrants and 5 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Cayman Islands in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 41, most common first
Philadelphia VireoVireo philadelphicusPassage migrantUncommon11–13 cmRegularly Oct–Nov
American AvocetRecurvirostra americanaWinter visitorUncommon43–51 cmRegularly Sep–Mar
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbulaPassage migrantUncommon17–19 cmRegularly Sep–Nov
Black-throated Green WarblerSetophaga virensWinter visitorUncommon11–12 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Scaly-breasted MuniaLonchura punctulataPassage migrantUncommon11–12 cmRegularly May–Oct
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serratorPassage migrantUncommon52–58 cmRegularly Dec–Jan
DickcisselSpiza americanaPassage migrantUncommon14–16 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Forster's TernSterna forsteriPassage migrantUncommon33–36 cmRegularly Sep–Mar
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisPassage migrantUncommon36–41 cmRegularly Aug–Dec
Northern PintailAnas acutaScarceUncommon59–76 cmRegularly Nov
Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citreaPassage migrantUncommon13–14 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Nashville WarblerLeiothlypis ruficapillaScarceUncommon11–13 cm
MallardAnas platyrhynchosPassage migrantUncommon50–65 cmRegularly Jan
Eurasian TealAnas creccaPassage migrantUncommon34–38 cmRegularly Nov–Dec
Scissor-tailed FlycatcherTyrannus forficatusPassage migrantUncommon28–38 cmRegularly Oct
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisScarceUncommon43–54 cm
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusScarceUncommon53–65 cm
Blue-headed VireoVireo solitariusScarceUncommon12–15 cm
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