Birds to See in Guadeloupe in May
37 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
37 bird species on our list for Guadeloupe are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are Eurasian Collared Dove, Cattle Egret, Ruddy Turnstone, Scaly-breasted Munia and White-winged Dove. New this month: Short-billed Dowitcher, Sandwich Tern, Great Shearwater and Pomarine Jaeger and 5 more.
New in May9
Residents
(12)Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Scaly-breasted Munia
Lonchura punctulataLC
Recorded all year
White-winged Dove
Zenaida asiaticaLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
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
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Duck
Oxyura jamaicensisLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(5)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(14)Present outside the breeding season
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jul–May
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Recorded all year
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Passage migrants
(5)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