Birds to See in Jamaica in August
26 species listed for August · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
26 bird species on our list for Jamaica are recorded regularly in August. Of these, the most often recorded are Turkey Vulture, Northern Mockingbird, Cattle Egret, White-winged Dove and Great White Egret. New this month: American Redstart, Least Sandpiper, Barn Swallow and Great Blue Heron and 8 more.
Residents
(11)Recorded all year
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes auraLC
Recorded all year
Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottosLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
White-winged Dove
Zenaida asiaticaLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Red-tailed Hawk
Buteo jamaicensisLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macrouraLC
Recorded all year
Common Starling
Sturnus vulgarisLC
Recorded all year
Winter visitors
(14)Present outside the breeding season
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Aug–Apr
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Aug–May
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Scaly-breasted Munia
Lonchura punctulataLC
Regularly Jul–May
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Aug–May
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–May
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Regularly Jul–May
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Aug–May
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Aug–May
Passage migrants
(1)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