Common Birds in Turks & Caicos Islands
Our list for Turks & Caicos Islands has 44 common birds recorded regularly there: 8 residents, 3 summer visitors, 15 winter visitors and 18 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Turks & Caicos Islands in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 44, most common first
Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusillaWinter visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapillaPassage migrantCommon12–15 cmRegularly Sep–Dec
BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorusPassage migrantCommon16–20 cmRegularly Sep–Oct
Western SandpiperCalidris mauriWinter visitorCommon14–17 cmRegularly Nov–Feb
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisSummer visitorCommon36–41 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensisPassage migrantCommon20–24 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopusWinter visitorCommon18–23 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
MerlinFalco columbariusWinter visitorCommon24–33 cmRegularly Sep–Feb
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaPassage migrantCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Red KnotCalidris canutusPassage migrantCommon23–26 cmRegularly Jan–Mar
Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotosPassage migrantCommon19–23 cmRegularly Aug–Oct
American RedstartSetophaga ruticillaPassage migrantCommon11–14 cmRegularly Sep–Mar
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusPassage migrantCommon52–64 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podicepsPassage migrantCommon31–38 cmRegularly Jun–Feb
Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citreaPassage migrantCommon13–14 cmRegularly Sep
Solitary SandpiperTringa solitariaPassage migrantCommon19–23 cmRegularly Aug–Dec
Roseate TernSterna dougalliiPassage migrantCommon33–41 cmRegularly May–Jun
House SparrowPasser domesticusPassage migrantCommon14–17 cmRegularly Nov–Jun
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasPassage migrantCommon11–13 cmRegularly Oct–Nov
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusPassage migrantCommon53–65 cmRegularly Nov–Dec
Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticoraxPassage migrantCommon58–65 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
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