Birds to See in Turks & Caicos Islands in December
37 species listed for December · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
37 bird species on our list for Turks & Caicos Islands are recorded regularly in December. Of these, the most often recorded are Northern Mockingbird, Ruddy Turnstone, Great White Egret, Osprey and Grey Plover. New this month: Pied-billed Grebe, Solitary Sandpiper, Northern Waterthrush and Red Junglefowl.
Residents
(8)Recorded all year
Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottosLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macrouraLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(2)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(16)Present outside the breeding season
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Cape May Warbler
Setophaga tigrinaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Aug–May
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Recorded all year
Palm Warbler
Setophaga palmarumLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Setophaga coronataLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly Aug–Jun
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Sep–Feb
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Nov–Feb
Passage migrants
(11)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Gray Catbird
Dumetella carolinensisLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–Dec
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
American Herring Gull
Larus smithsonianusLC
Regularly Nov–Dec
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Ovenbird
Seiurus aurocapillaLC
Regularly Sep–Dec
Red Junglefowl
Gallus gallusLC
Regularly Jun–Feb
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Aug–Dec
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Sphyrapicus variusLC
Regularly Nov–Dec
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