Birds to See in Jamaica in May
29 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
29 bird species on our list for Jamaica are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are Turkey Vulture, Northern Mockingbird, White-winged Dove, Cattle Egret and Red-tailed Hawk.
New in May
No new arrivals this month.
Residents
(11)Recorded all year
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes auraLC
Recorded all year
Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottosLC
Recorded all year
White-winged Dove
Zenaida asiaticaLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Red-tailed Hawk
Buteo jamaicensisLC
Recorded all year
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macrouraLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Common Starling
Sturnus vulgarisLC
Recorded all year
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Winter visitors
(17)Present outside the breeding season
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Rose-ringed Parakeet
Psittacula krameriLC
Regularly Jul–May
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Setophaga caerulescensLC
Regularly Oct–May
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Aug–May
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Regularly Jul–May
Scaly-breasted Munia
Lonchura punctulataLC
Regularly Jul–May
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Aug–May
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Aug–May
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–May
Ovenbird
Seiurus aurocapillaLC
Regularly Sep–May
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–May
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Regularly Aug–May
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Aug–May
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Sep–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