Birds to See in Guadeloupe in October
51 species listed for October · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
51 bird species on our list for Guadeloupe are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Cattle Egret, Eurasian Collared Dove, Semipalmated Plover, Blackpoll Warbler and Semipalmated Sandpiper. New this month: Blackpoll Warbler, American Redstart, Merlin and Bobolink and 8 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
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
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
White-winged Dove
Zenaida asiaticaLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Duck
Oxyura jamaicensisLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly Oct–Aug
Summer visitors
(3)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(21)Present outside the breeding season
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jul–May
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Recorded all year
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Regularly Sep–Feb
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citreaLC
Regularly Oct–Feb
Ovenbird
Seiurus aurocapillaLC
Regularly Oct–Feb
Passage migrants
(14)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Blackpoll Warbler
Setophaga striataNT
Regularly Oct–Nov
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Aug–Nov
White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollisVU
Regularly Aug–Nov
American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominicaLC
Regularly Aug–Dec
Bobolink
Dolichonyx oryzivorusLC
Regularly Oct–Nov
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Apr–Nov
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Oct–Dec
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Pheucticus ludovicianusLC
Regularly Oct
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Sep–Oct
Red Knot
Calidris canutusNT
Regularly Sep–Nov
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Regularly May–Oct
Upland Sandpiper
Bartramia longicaudaLC
Regularly Sep–Oct
Wilson's Phalarope
Phalaropus tricolorLC
Regularly Sep–Oct
Hudsonian Godwit
Limosa haemasticaVU
Regularly Oct
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