Birds to See in Trinidad & Tobago in April
36 species listed for April · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
36 bird species on our list for Trinidad & Tobago are recorded regularly in April. Of these, the most often recorded are Palm Tanager, Turkey Vulture, Cattle Egret, Great White Egret and Rock Dove. New this month: Roseate Tern.
New in April1
Leaving after last month7
Residents
(10)Recorded all year
Palm Tanager
Thraupis palmarumLC
Recorded all year
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes auraLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
Glaucidium brasilianumLC
Recorded all year
Lineated Woodpecker
Dryocopus lineatusLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Common Potoo
Nyctibius griseusLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(2)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(23)Present outside the breeding season
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–May
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jun–Apr
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Jun–Apr
Cocoi Heron
Ardea cocoiLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Dickcissel
Spiza americanaLC
Regularly Dec–Apr
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
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