Birds to See in Turks & Caicos Islands in September
34 species listed for September · birdwatchers' records, 2019–2024
34 bird species on our list for Turks & Caicos Islands are recorded regularly in September. Of these, the most often recorded are Northern Mockingbird, Mourning Dove, White-winged Dove, Eurasian Collared Dove and Least Sandpiper. New this month: Blackpoll Warbler, Sanderling, Cape May Warbler and Ovenbird and 8 more.
Residents
(8)Recorded all year
Northern Mockingbird
Mimus polyglottosLC
Recorded all year
Mourning Dove
Zenaida macrouraLC
Recorded all year
Eurasian Collared Dove
Streptopelia decaoctoLC
Recorded all year
Ruddy Turnstone
Arenaria interpresLC
Recorded all year
Osprey
Pandion haliaetusLC
Recorded all year
Great White Egret
Ardea albaLC
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
(12)Present outside the breeding season
Least Sandpiper
Calidris minutillaNT
Recorded all year
Grey Plover
Pluvialis squatarolaLC
Recorded all year
Lesser Yellowlegs
Tringa flavipesVU
Regularly Aug–May
Semipalmated Plover
Charadrius semipalmatusLC
Regularly Aug–Jun
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Calidris pusillaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Greater Yellowlegs
Tringa melanoleucaNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Great Blue Heron
Ardea herodiasLC
Recorded all year
Cape May Warbler
Setophaga tigrinaLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Sanderling
Calidris albaLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Merlin
Falco columbariusLC
Regularly Sep–Feb
Stilt Sandpiper
Calidris himantopusNT
Regularly Aug–Jun
Rock Dove
Columba liviaLC
Regularly Sep–Jun
Passage migrants
(12)Seen mainly in spring and autumn migration
Barn Swallow
Hirundo rusticaLC
Regularly Apr–Oct
Pectoral Sandpiper
Calidris melanotosLC
Regularly Aug–Oct
Prothonotary Warbler
Protonotaria citreaLC
Regularly Sep
American Redstart
Setophaga ruticillaLC
Regularly Sep–Mar
Solitary Sandpiper
Tringa solitariaLC
Regularly Aug–Dec
Black-crowned Night-heron
Nycticorax nycticoraxLC
Regularly Aug–Apr
Northern Waterthrush
Parkesia noveboracensisLC
Regularly Sep–Dec
Bobolink
Dolichonyx oryzivorusLC
Regularly Sep–Oct
Blackpoll Warbler
Setophaga striataNT
Regularly Sep–Nov
Whimbrel
Numenius phaeopusLC
Regularly Sep–Apr
Ovenbird
Seiurus aurocapillaLC
Regularly Sep–Dec
Ruddy Duck
Oxyura jamaicensisLC
Regularly Jun–Sep
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