Birds to See in Curaçao in May
34 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
34 bird species on our list for Curaçao are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are Common Tern, Rock Dove, House Sparrow, Cattle Egret and Great White Egret. New this month: White-rumped Sandpiper, Bobolink, Sand Martin and Rose-ringed Parakeet and 1 more.
Leaving after last month4
Residents
(14)Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(3)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(9)Present outside the breeding season
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–May
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Recorded all year
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–May
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–May
Passage migrants
(8)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollisVU
Regularly May–Nov
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Mar–Nov
Blackpoll Warbler
Setophaga striataNT
Regularly Apr–Dec
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Regularly May–Nov
Red Knot
Calidris canutusNT
Regularly May
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Regularly May–Jan
Bobolink
Dolichonyx oryzivorusLC
Regularly May–Nov
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