Birds to See in Guadeloupe in August
34 species listed for August · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
34 bird species on our list for Guadeloupe are recorded regularly in August. Of these, the most often recorded are Cattle Egret, Eurasian Collared Dove, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Lesser Yellowlegs and Semipalmated Plover. New this month: White-rumped Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, American Golden-Plover and Western Sandpiper and 1 more.
New in August5
Leaving after last month2
Residents
(12)Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year

Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year

Scaly-breasted Munia
Lonchura punctulataLC
Recorded all year

Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year

Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year

Red Junglefowl
Gallus gallusLC
Recorded all year

White-winged Dove
Zenaida asiaticaLC
Recorded all year

Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Recorded all year

Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year

Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year

Ruddy Duck
Oxyura jamaicensisLC
Recorded all year

House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Summer visitors
(4)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winterWinter visitors
(14)Present outside the breeding season
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Recorded all year

Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jul–May

Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year

Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May

Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Recorded all year

Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Jul–May

Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year

Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Recorded all year

Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year

Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr

Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Aug–Jun

Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year

Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun

Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Passage migrants
(4)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migrationData: 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







