Birds to See in Trinidad & Tobago in January
42 species listed for January · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
42 bird species on our list for Trinidad & Tobago are recorded regularly in January. Of these, the most often recorded are Palm Tanager, Cattle Egret, Turkey Vulture, Great White Egret and Osprey. New this month: Red Knot, Mottled Owl and Grey Heron.
New in January3
Leaving after last month5
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
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Lineated Woodpecker
Dryocopus lineatusLC
Recorded all year
Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
Glaucidium brasilianumLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Common Potoo
Nyctibius griseusLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(1)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(25)Present outside the breeding season
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–May
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jun–Apr
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Cocoi Heron
Ardea cocoiLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Jul–Mar
Dickcissel
Spiza americanaLC
Regularly Dec–Apr
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Jul–Feb
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May
Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Jun–Apr
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Passage migrants
(6)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citreaLC
Regularly Oct–Jan
Red Knot
Calidris canutusNT
Regularly Aug–May
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly Jun–Mar
Mottled Owl
Strix virgataLC
Regularly Jan–Jul
Blackpoll Warbler
Setophaga striataNT
Regularly Oct–Mar
Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Jan–Mar
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