Birds to See in Trinidad & Tobago in August
34 species listed for August · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
34 bird species on our list for Trinidad & Tobago are recorded regularly in August. Of these, the most often recorded are Palm Tanager, Cattle Egret, Turkey Vulture, Great White Egret and Rock Dove. New this month: Barn Swallow, American Golden-Plover, Broad-winged Hawk and White-rumped Sandpiper and 3 more.
Residents
(10)Recorded all year
Palm Tanager
Thraupis palmarumLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes auraLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Lineated Woodpecker
Dryocopus lineatusLC
Recorded all year
Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
Glaucidium brasilianumLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Common Potoo
Nyctibius griseusLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(2)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(14)Present outside the breeding season
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jun–Apr
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Jul–Feb
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Jun–Apr
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Passage migrants
(8)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Jul–Nov
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly May–Dec
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly Jun–Mar
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Regularly Mar–Dec
White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollisVU
Regularly Aug–Dec
American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominicaLC
Regularly Aug–Nov
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Jun–Oct
Red Knot
Calidris canutusNT
Regularly Aug–May
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