Birds to See in Turks & Caicos Islands in August
25 species listed for August · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
25 bird species on our list for Turks & Caicos Islands are recorded regularly in August. Of these, the most often recorded are Northern Mockingbird, Mourning Dove, White-winged Dove, Ruddy Turnstone and Least Sandpiper. New this month: Semipalmated Plover, Short-billed Dowitcher, Greater Yellowlegs and Lesser Yellowlegs and 7 more.
New in August11
Leaving after last month
No departures — all species from last month remain.
Residents
(8)Recorded all year
Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottosLC
Recorded all year
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macrouraLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(3)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(9)Present outside the breeding season
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Aug–May
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly Aug–Jun
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Passage migrants
(5)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Apr–Oct
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Aug–Dec
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Aug–Oct
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Regularly Jun–Feb
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