Birds to See in Turks & Caicos Islands in May
26 species listed for May · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
26 bird species on our list for Turks & Caicos Islands are recorded regularly in May. Of these, the most often recorded are Mourning Dove, Northern Mockingbird, Gull-billed Tern, White-winged Dove and Ruddy Turnstone. New this month: Roseate Tern, House Sparrow and Glossy Ibis.
New in May3
Leaving after last month5
Residents
(8)Recorded all year
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macrouraLC
Recorded all year
Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottosLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Willet
Tringa semipalmataLC
Recorded all year
Cattle Egret
Ardea ibisLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Summer visitors
(3)Arrives to breed; scarce or absent in winter
Winter visitors
(11)Present outside the breeding season
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly Aug–Jun
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Aug–May
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Passage migrants
(4)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
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