Birds to See in Turks & Caicos Islands in April
28 species listed for April · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
28 bird species on our list for Turks & Caicos Islands are recorded regularly in April. Of these, the most often recorded are Northern Mockingbird, Ruddy Turnstone, Mourning Dove, Osprey and Great White Egret. New this month: Gull-billed Tern and Barn Swallow.
New in April2
Leaving after last month5
Residents
(8)Recorded all year
Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottosLC
Recorded all year

Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year

Mourning Dove
Zenaida macrouraLC
Recorded all year

Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year

Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year

Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year

Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year

Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(3)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winterWinter visitors
(14)Present outside the breeding season
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year

Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Recorded all year

Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year

Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Sep–Jun

Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun

Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun

Palm Warbler
Setophaga palmarumLC
Regularly Oct–Apr

Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly Aug–Jun

Cape May Warbler
Setophaga tigrinaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr

Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Aug–May

Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun

Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–Jun

Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Sep–Jun

Yellow-rumped Warbler
Setophaga coronataLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Passage migrants
(3)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migrationData: 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





