Birds in Turks & Caicos Islands
Our list for Turks & Caicos Islands has 66 bird species recorded regularly there: 8 residents, 3 summer visitors, 16 winter visitors, 36 passage migrants and 3 scarce visitors
The list comes from 38,000 birdwatchers' records from 2019–2024, shared through the eBird Observation Dataset on GBIF. A bird is listed when it was recorded in at least 3 of the 6 years and has a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur here than are listed; the months show when it is recorded most years.
- Species on our list
- 66
- In October
- 49
- Common
- 44
- Busiest month
- Oct
This month: October
GBIF · OctMost likely
Arriving now
Palm WarblerWinter visitorSep 0.00% → Oct 1.03%
Gray CatbirdPassage migrantSep 0.00% → Oct 0.65%
Short-billed DowitcherWinter visitorSep 0.51% → Oct 0.56%
Common YellowthroatPassage migrantSep 0.08% → Oct 0.52%
Rose-breasted GrosbeakPassage migrantSep 0.00% → Oct 0.47%
Peregrine FalconPassage migrantSep 0.04% → Oct 0.32%
Share of all bird records in Turks & Caicos Islands in October, 2019–2024. “Arriving now” are the birds whose share rises most from last month. Each month links to that month’s page.
The bird calendar for Turks & Caicos Islands
Month by monthWhen each bird is around, through the year. The darker the square, the closer that month is to the bird’s busiest. Filter by summer or winter visitors to see the seasons turn over.
| Bird | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
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| Northern Mockingbird | ||||||||||||
| Ruddy Turnstone | ||||||||||||
| Mourning Dove | ||||||||||||
| Osprey | ||||||||||||
| Great White Egret | ||||||||||||
| Grey Plover | ||||||||||||
| White-winged Dove | ||||||||||||
| Eurasian Collared Dove | ||||||||||||
| Great Blue Heron | ||||||||||||
| Least Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Lesser Yellowlegs | ||||||||||||
| Cattle Egret | ||||||||||||
| Willet | ||||||||||||
| Greater Yellowlegs | ||||||||||||
| Cape May Warbler | ||||||||||||
| Sanderling | ||||||||||||
| Semipalmated Plover | ||||||||||||
| Gull-billed Tern | ||||||||||||
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Blackpoll Warbler | ||||||||||||
| Short-billed Dowitcher | ||||||||||||
| Palm Warbler | ||||||||||||
| Stilt Sandpiper | ||||||||||||
| Sandwich Tern | ||||||||||||
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | ||||||||||||
| Merlin | ||||||||||||
| Gray Catbird | ||||||||||||
| Ovenbird | ||||||||||||
| Barn Swallow | ||||||||||||
| American Redstart |
The year in Turks & Caicos Islands
Records by month| January | 2,177 |
|---|---|
| February | 3,215 |
| March | 2,487 |
| April | 2,630 |
| May | 4,720 |
| June | 5,040 |
| July | 1,816 |
| August | 1,717 |
| September | 2,562 |
| October | 5,545 |
| November | 3,105 |
| December | 2,886 |
October has the most records (5,545). Records follow birdwatchers as well as birds: a busy month means more people out looking, as well as more birds passing through.
By family
12 of 12How common
All 66 birds, A to Z
- American Golden-Plover
- American Herring Gull
- American Redstart
- Baltimore Oriole
- Barn Swallow
- Black-crowned Night-heron
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Bobolink
- Cape May Warbler
- Cattle Egret
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Common Tern
- Common Yellowthroat
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Glossy Ibis
- Gray Catbird
- Great Blue Heron
- Great White Egret
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Grey Plover
- Gull-billed Tern
- House Sparrow
Show all 66 birds
- Least Sandpiper
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Magnolia Warbler
- Merlin
- Mourning Dove
- Northern Mockingbird
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Waterthrush
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Palm Warbler
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Piping Plover
- Prothonotary Warbler
- Purple Martin
- Red Junglefowl
- Red Knot
- Ring-billed Gull
- Rock Dove
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Roseate Tern
- Ruddy Duck
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Sanderling
- Sandwich Tern
- Scarlet Tanager
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Tennessee Warbler
- Western Sandpiper
- Whimbrel
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- White-winged Dove
- Willet
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
Questions
3How many birds are on Birdfact's list for Turks & Caicos Islands?
66 species, each recorded regularly in Turks & Caicos Islands (in at least 3 of the 6 years 2019–2024): 8 residents, 3 summer visitors, 16 winter visitors, 36 passage migrants and 3 scarce visitors. The list includes only birds with a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur in Turks & Caicos Islands, and rarer vagrants are not listed.
What birds can I see in Turks & Caicos Islands in October?
49 species on our list for Turks & Caicos Islands are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Northern Mockingbird, Blackpoll Warbler, Cape May Warbler, Grey Plover and Osprey.
What are the most common birds in Turks & Caicos Islands?
Of the birds on our list, the ones birdwatchers record most often in Turks & Caicos Islands are Northern Mockingbird, Ruddy Turnstone, Grey Plover, Blackpoll Warbler and Osprey.
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