Birds to See in Curaçao in December
30 species listed for December · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
30 bird species on our list for Curaçao are recorded regularly in December. Of these, the most often recorded are Rock Dove, Lesser Yellowlegs, Greater Yellowlegs, Great White Egret and House Sparrow. New this month: Sandwich Tern and Rose-ringed Parakeet.
New in December2
Residents
(14)Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(1)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(11)Present outside the breeding season
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–May
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–May
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citreaLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Passage migrants
(4)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