Birds to See in Mauritius in February
14 species listed for February · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
14 bird species on our list for Mauritius are recorded regularly in February. Of these, the most often recorded are House Sparrow, Rock Dove, Whimbrel, Scaly-breasted Munia and Common Sandpiper. New this month: Common Sandpiper, Ruddy Turnstone, Lesser Noddy and Greenshank and 3 more.
New in February7
Leaving after last month
No departures — all species from last month remain.
Residents
(5)Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(2)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Passage migrants
(7)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Common Sandpiper
Actitis hypoleucosLC
Regularly Aug–Feb
Greenshank
Tringa nebulariaLC
Regularly Aug–Mar
Curlew Sandpiper
Calidris ferrugineaNT
Regularly Aug–Feb
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Lesser Noddy
Anous tenuirostrisLC
Regularly Nov–Aug
Eleonora's Falcon
Falco eleonoraeLC
Regularly Feb
Mallard
Anas platyrhynchosLC
Regularly Feb
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