Birds to See in Turks & Caicos Islands in November
40 species listed for November · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
40 bird species on our list for Turks & Caicos Islands are recorded regularly in November. Of these, the most often recorded are Northern Mockingbird, Ruddy Turnstone, Great White Egret, Osprey and Great Blue Heron. New this month: Yellow-rumped Warbler, Western Sandpiper, House Sparrow and American Herring Gull and 2 more.
New in November6
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
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Aug–May
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Cape May Warbler
Setophaga tigrinaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Recorded all year
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Setophaga coronataLC
Regularly Nov–Apr
Palm Warbler
Setophaga palmarumLC
Regularly Oct–Apr
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Sep–Feb
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Short-billed Dowitcher
Limnodromus griseusVU
Regularly Aug–Jun
Western Sandpiper
Calidris mauriLC
Regularly Nov–Feb
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Passage migrants
(14)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Gray Catbird
Dumetella carolinensisLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
Blackpoll Warbler
Setophaga striataNT
Regularly Sep–Nov
Ovenbird
Seiurus aurocapillaLC
Regularly Sep–Dec
American Herring Gull
Larus smithsonianusLC
Regularly Nov–Dec
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscusLC
Regularly Oct–Mar
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Setophaga caerulescensLC
Regularly Oct–Nov
Peregrine Falcon
Falco peregrinusLC
Regularly Oct–Feb
Common Yellowthroat
Geothlypis trichasLC
Regularly Oct–Nov
House Sparrow
Passer domesticusLC
Regularly Nov–Jun
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Sphyrapicus variusLC
Regularly Nov–Dec
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
American Golden-Plover
Pluvialis dominicaLC
Regularly Oct–Nov
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