Birds to See in Trinidad & Tobago in July
31 species listed for July · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
31 bird species on our list for Trinidad & Tobago are recorded regularly in July. Of these, the most often recorded are Palm Tanager, Cattle Egret, Turkey Vulture, Rock Dove and Great White Egret. New this month: Semipalmated Sandpiper, Short-billed Dowitcher, Pectoral Sandpiper and Least Sandpiper and 7 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
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Lineated Woodpecker
Dryocopus lineatusLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
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
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Jul–Mar
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Jul–Feb
Passage migrants
(5)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