Birds to See in Trinidad & Tobago in March
42 species listed for March · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
42 bird species on our list for Trinidad & Tobago are recorded regularly in March. Of these, the most often recorded are Palm Tanager, Cattle Egret, Turkey Vulture, Great White Egret and Northern Waterthrush. New this month: Glossy Ibis, Common Tern, Sand Martin and Blackpoll Warbler and 1 more.
Leaving after last month1
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

Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year

Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
Glaucidium brasilianumLC
Recorded all year

Common Potoo
Nyctibius griseusLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(1)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winterWinter visitors
(24)Present outside the breeding season
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–May

American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr

Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year

Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr

Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jun–Apr

Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year

Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year

Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr

Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Sep–Jul

Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun

Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr

Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year

Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun

Dickcissel
Spiza americanaLC
Regularly Dec–Apr

Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Jul–May

Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Jun–Apr

Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Jul–Mar

Cocoi Heron
Ardea cocoiLC
Regularly Oct–Jun

Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May

Little Egret
Egretta garzettaLC
Regularly Nov–Apr

Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May

Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr

Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Regularly Oct–Jul

Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May
Passage migrants
(7)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Mottled Owl
Strix virgataLC
Regularly Jan–Jul

Red Knot
Calidris canutusNT
Regularly Aug–May

Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly Jun–Mar

Grey Heron
Ardea cinereaLC
Regularly Jan–Mar

Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Regularly Sep–Mar

Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Regularly Mar–Dec

Blackpoll Warbler
Setophaga striataNT
Regularly Oct–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
