Birds to See in Guyana in August
25 species listed for August · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
25 bird species on our list for Guyana are recorded regularly in August. Of these, the most often recorded are Great White Egret, Palm Tanager, Cattle Egret, Roadside Hawk and Rock Dove. New this month: Osprey, Lesser Yellowlegs, Solitary Sandpiper and Ferruginous Pygmy-owl and 10 more.
New in August14
Leaving after last month
No departures — all species from last month remain.
Residents
(10)Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Palm Tanager
Thraupis palmarumLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Roadside Hawk
Rupornis magnirostrisLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes auraLC
Recorded all year
Lineated Woodpecker
Dryocopus lineatusLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Cocoi Heron
Ardea cocoiLC
Recorded all year
Scarlet Macaw
Ara macaoLC
Recorded all year
Winter visitors
(12)Present outside the breeding season
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Aug–May
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Aug–May
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Regularly Jul–May
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–May
Great Horned Owl
Bubo virginianusLC
Regularly Aug–May
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Regularly Aug–May
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
Glaucidium brasilianumLC
Regularly Aug–May
Common Potoo
Nyctibius griseusLC
Regularly Aug–May
Passage migrants
(3)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
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