Birds to See in Trinidad & Tobago in May
30 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
30 bird species on our list for Trinidad & Tobago are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are Palm Tanager, Turkey Vulture, Cattle Egret, Rock Dove and Great White Egret. New this month: Short-billed Dowitcher, Common Tern, Red Knot and Eurasian Collared Dove.
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
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Lineated Woodpecker
Dryocopus lineatusLC
Recorded all year
Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
Glaucidium brasilianumLC
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
(13)Present outside the breeding season
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Cocoi Heron
Ardea cocoiLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–May
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
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