Birds to See in Turks & Caicos Islands in February
36 species listed for February · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
36 bird species on our list for Turks & Caicos Islands are recorded regularly in February. Of these, the most often recorded are Northern Mockingbird, Great White Egret, Ruddy Turnstone, Osprey and Mourning Dove. New this month: White-winged Dove, Gray Catbird, American Redstart and Lesser Black-backed Gull and 6 more.
Residents
(8)Recorded all year
Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottosLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
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
(1)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(16)Present outside the breeding season
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Aug–May
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Setophaga coronataLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Palm Warbler
Setophaga palmarumLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Cape May Warbler
Setophaga tigrinaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly Aug–Jun
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Sep–Feb
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
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
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Piping Plover
Charadrius melodusNT
Regularly Jan–Feb
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Feb
Red Junglefowl
Gallus gallusLC
Regularly Jun–Feb
Pied-billed Grebe
Podilymbus podicepsLC
Regularly Jun–Feb
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
Ring-billed Gull
Larus delawarensisLC
Regularly Feb
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Northern Shoveler
Spatula clypeataLC
Regularly 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