Birds to See in Turks & Caicos Islands in March
31 species listed for March · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
31 bird species on our list for Turks & Caicos Islands are recorded regularly in March. Of these, the most often recorded are Northern Mockingbird, Ruddy Turnstone, Osprey, Great Blue Heron and Mourning Dove. New this month: Sandwich Tern, Red Knot and Black-crowned Night-heron.
Residents
(8)Recorded all year
Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottosLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macrouraLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(2)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(14)Present outside the breeding season
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Aug–May
Cape May Warbler
Setophaga tigrinaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Palm Warbler
Setophaga palmarumLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly Aug–Jun
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Setophaga coronataLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Passage migrants
(7)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Gray Catbird
Dumetella carolinensisLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Red Knot
Calidris canutusNT
Regularly Jan–Mar
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