Birds to See in Trinidad & Tobago in September
40 species listed for September · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
40 bird species on our list for Trinidad & Tobago are recorded regularly in September. Of these, the most often recorded are Palm Tanager, Cattle Egret, Great White Egret, Lesser Yellowlegs and Semipalmated Sandpiper. New this month: Northern Waterthrush, American Redstart, Great Blue Heron and Hudsonian Godwit and 3 more.
New in September7
Leaving after last month1
Residents
(10)Recorded all year
Palm Tanager
Thraupis palmarumLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Recorded all year
Turkey Vulture
Cathartes auraLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Recorded all year
Ferruginous Pygmy-owl
Glaucidium brasilianumLC
Recorded all year
Lineated Woodpecker
Dryocopus lineatusLC
Recorded all year
Common Potoo
Nyctibius griseusLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(2)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(18)Present outside the breeding season
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Jun–Apr
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Recorded all year
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Regularly Jul–May
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Jul–Apr
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Jul–May
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Recorded all year
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Regularly Jul–May
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Jul–Feb
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–May
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Regularly Sep–Jul
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Jul–Mar
Sandwich Tern
Thalasseus sandvicensisLC
Regularly Jun–Apr
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Passage migrants
(10)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly May–Dec
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Jul–Nov
American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominicaLC
Regularly Aug–Nov
White-rumped Sandpiper
Calidris fuscicollisVU
Regularly Aug–Dec
Gull-billed Tern
Gelochelidon niloticaLC
Regularly Jun–Oct
Red Knot
Calidris canutusNT
Regularly Aug–May
Common Tern
Sterna hirundoLC
Regularly Mar–Dec
Glossy Ibis
Plegadis falcinellusLC
Regularly Jun–Mar
Hudsonian Godwit
Limosa haemasticaVU
Regularly Sep–Oct
Sand Martin
Riparia ripariaLC
Regularly Sep–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