Birds to See in Trinidad & Tobago in October
49 species listed for October · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
49 bird species on our list for Trinidad & Tobago are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Palm Tanager, Cattle Egret, Osprey, Great White Egret and Turkey Vulture. New this month: Broad-winged Hawk, Merlin, Peregrine Falcon and Cocoi Heron and 6 more.
New in October10
Leaving after last month1
Residents
(10)Recorded all year
Palm Tanager
Thraupis palmarumLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes auraLC
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
Common Potoo
Nyctibius griseusLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(1)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(23)Present outside the breeding season
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–May
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jun–Apr
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Jul–Feb
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Cocoi Heron
Ardea cocoiLC
Regularly Oct–Jun
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Jul–Mar
Broad-winged Hawk
Buteo platypterusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Jun–Apr
Muscovy Duck
Cairina moschataLC
Regularly Oct–Jul
Passage migrants
(14)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Jul–Nov
American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominicaLC
Regularly Aug–Nov
White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollisVU
Regularly Aug–Dec
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly Jun–Mar
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Regularly Mar–Dec
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly May–Dec
Hudsonian Godwit
Limosa haemasticaVU
Regularly Sep–Oct
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Jun–Oct
Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Upland Sandpiper
Bartramia longicaudaLC
Regularly Oct
Bobolink
Dolichonyx oryzivorusLC
Regularly Oct
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citreaLC
Regularly Oct–Jan
Red Knot
Calidris canutusNT
Regularly Aug–May
Blackpoll Warbler
Setophaga striataNT
Regularly Oct–Mar
Scarce visitors
(1)Recorded in some years but not every year
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