Birds to See in Guadeloupe in December
42 species listed for December · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
42 bird species on our list for Guadeloupe are recorded regularly in December. Of these, the most often recorded are Cattle Egret, Eurasian Collared Dove, Scaly-breasted Munia, Great White Egret and Lesser Yellowlegs. New this month: Cape May Warbler, Black-headed Gull, Prothonotary Warbler and Yellow-rumped Warbler and 1 more.
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
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Red Junglefowl
Gallus gallusLC
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
White-winged Dove
Zenaida asiaticaLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Duck
Oxyura jamaicensisLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Summer visitors
(2)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(23)Present outside the breeding season
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jul–May
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Recorded all year
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Jul–May
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Recorded all year
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Regularly Sep–Feb
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Ovenbird
Seiurus aurocapillaLC
Regularly Oct–Feb
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citreaLC
Regularly Oct–Feb
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Setophaga coronataLC
Regularly Dec–Feb
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
Passage migrants
(4)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Scarce visitors
(1)Recorded in some years but not every year
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