Birds to See in Martinique in October
26 species listed for October · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
26 bird species on our list for Martinique are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Cattle Egret, Semipalmated Plover, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Broad-winged Hawk and Least Sandpiper. New this month: Rock Dove, Great Blue Heron, Black-crowned Night-heron and Blackpoll Warbler and 4 more.
Residents
(4)Recorded all yearWinter visitors
(5)Present outside the breeding seasonPassage migrants
(16)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Aug–Apr

Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Apr–Jan

Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Apr–Nov

White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollisVU
Regularly Aug–Oct

Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Jul–Apr

Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Aug–Oct

Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr

Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr

Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Aug–Oct

Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Regularly Jul–Oct

Blackpoll Warbler
Setophaga striataNT
Regularly Oct

Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Jan

Chestnut Munia
Lonchura atricapillaLC
Regularly Oct

Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Oct

Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Oct–Apr

Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Scarce visitors
(1)Recorded in some years but not every yearData: 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









