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Anguilla bird checklist

133 bird species in 34 families have been recorded in Anguilla, according to eBird; about 127 of them are seen regularly, and the rest are rarities, vagrants and escaped or introduced birds. Download the full list as a PDF, or tick birds off on your phone, with counts and notes, even without signal.

Species data: eBird.org, updated · How these lists are made

The most common birds in Anguilla right now

  1. 1Lesser Yellowlegs
  2. 2Laughing Gull
  3. 3Bananaquit
  4. 4Least Sandpiper
  5. 5Stilt Sandpiper
  6. 6White-cheeked Pintail
  7. 7Black-necked Stilt
  8. 8Western Sandpiper
  9. 9Great Egret
  10. 10Black-faced Grassquit
The top 20, and how they are ranked

Anguilla bird checklist

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Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl

  • Blue-winged Teal
  • Northern Shoveler
  • Eurasian Wigeon
  • American Wigeon
  • White-cheeked Pintail
  • Northern Pintail
  • Green-winged Teal
  • Ring-necked Duck
  • Lesser Scaup
  • Long-tailed Duck
  • Hooded Merganser
  • Ruddy Duck

Pheasants, Grouse, and Allies

  • Red Junglefowl

Pigeons and Doves

  • Rock Pigeon
  • Scaly-naped Pigeon
  • White-crowned Pigeon
  • Eurasian Collared-Dove
  • African Collared-Dove
  • Common Ground Dove
  • White-winged Dove
  • Zenaida Dove

Cuckoos

  • Yellow-billed Cuckoo
  • Mangrove Cuckoo

Nightjars and Allies

  • Common Nighthawk
  • Antillean Nighthawk

Hummingbirds

  • Purple-throated Carib
  • Green-throated Carib
  • Antillean Crested Hummingbird

Rails, Gallinules, and Coots

  • Sora
  • Common Gallinule
  • American Coot
  • Purple Gallinule

Stilts and Avocets

  • Black-necked Stilt
  • American Avocet

Oystercatchers

  • American Oystercatcher

Plovers and Lapwings

  • Black-bellied Plover
  • American Golden-Plover
  • Killdeer
  • Semipalmated Plover
  • Piping Plover
  • Wilson's Plover
  • Snowy Plover

Sandpipers and Allies

  • Hudsonian Whimbrel
  • Hudsonian Godwit
  • Short-billed Dowitcher
  • Wilson's Snipe
  • Wilson's Phalarope
  • Red-necked Phalarope
  • Spotted Sandpiper
  • Solitary Sandpiper
  • Lesser Yellowlegs
  • Willet
  • Greater Yellowlegs
  • Ruddy Turnstone
  • Red Knot
  • Ruff
  • Curlew Sandpiper
  • Stilt Sandpiper
  • Sanderling
  • White-rumped Sandpiper
  • Least Sandpiper
  • Pectoral Sandpiper
  • Western Sandpiper
  • Semipalmated Sandpiper

Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers

  • Black-headed Gull
  • Laughing Gull
  • Lesser Black-backed Gull
  • Iceland Gull
  • Brown Noddy
  • Sooty Tern
  • Bridled Tern
  • Least Tern
  • Gull-billed Tern
  • Common Tern
  • Roseate Tern
  • Sandwich Tern
  • Royal Tern

Flamingos

  • American Flamingo

Grebes

  • Pied-billed Grebe

Tropicbirds

  • White-tailed Tropicbird
  • Red-billed Tropicbird

Southern Storm-Petrels

  • Wilson's Storm-Petrel

Shearwaters and Petrels

  • Sargasso Shearwater

Frigatebirds

  • Magnificent Frigatebird

Boobies and Gannets

  • Northern Gannet
  • Red-footed Booby
  • Brown Booby
  • Masked Booby

Ibises and Spoonbills

  • Glossy Ibis

Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns

  • Yellow-crowned Night Heron
  • Black-crowned Night Heron
  • Little Blue Heron
  • Tricolored Heron
  • Snowy Egret
  • Little Egret
  • Green Heron
  • Western Cattle-Egret
  • Great Egret
  • Great Blue Heron

Pelicans

  • American White Pelican
  • Brown Pelican

Osprey

  • Osprey

Kingfishers

  • Belted Kingfisher

Falcons and Caracaras

  • American Kestrel
  • Merlin
  • Peregrine Falcon

Tyrant Flycatchers

  • Caribbean Elaenia
  • Gray Kingbird

Vireos, Shrike-Babblers, and Erpornis

  • Black-whiskered Vireo

Swallows

  • Bank Swallow
  • Caribbean Martin
  • Barn Swallow
  • Cliff Swallow

Mockingbirds and Thrashers

  • Pearly-eyed Thrasher

Old World Sparrows

  • House Sparrow

Troupials and Allies

  • Baltimore Oriole
  • Carib Grackle

New World Warblers

  • Ovenbird
  • Northern Waterthrush
  • Black-and-white Warbler
  • Prothonotary Warbler
  • American Redstart
  • Cape May Warbler
  • Northern Parula
  • Blackburnian Warbler
  • Mangrove Yellow Warbler
  • Blackpoll Warbler
  • Yellow-rumped Warbler
  • Prairie Warbler

Cardinals and Allies

  • Scarlet Tanager

Tanagers and Allies

  • Bananaquit
  • Lesser Antillean Bullfinch
  • Black-faced Grassquit

Most common birds in Anguilla

Ranked by how recently and how widely each was reported to eBird in the 30 days to 2026-10-13, and whether it is one of Anguilla’s regular birds. The list follows the seasons: migrants rise in spring and autumn.

  1. Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipes
  2. Laughing GullLeucophaeus atricilla
  3. BananaquitCoereba flaveola
  4. Least SandpiperCalidris minutilla
  5. Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopus
  6. White-cheeked PintailAnas bahamensis
  7. Black-necked StiltHimantopus mexicanus
  8. Western SandpiperCalidris mauri
  9. Great EgretArdea alba
  10. Black-faced GrassquitMelanospiza bicolor
  11. White-rumped SandpiperCalidris fuscicollis
  12. Royal TernThalasseus maximus
  13. Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleuca
  14. Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusilla
  15. Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseus
  16. Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatus
  17. Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensis
  18. Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpres
  19. Snowy EgretEgretta thula
  20. Black-bellied PloverPluvialis squatarola

Largest bird families in Anguilla

Among its regular birds.

  • Sandpipers and Allies22
  • Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl12
  • New World Warblers12
  • Gulls, Terns, and Skimmers11
  • Herons, Egrets, and Bitterns10
  • Plovers and Lapwings7
  • Pigeons and Doves7
  • Rails, Gallinules, and Coots4

Reported in the last 30 days

58 species reported to eBird in Anguilla in the 30 days to 2026-10-13. The 40 most recently reported:

Lesser Yellowlegs, Bananaquit, White-cheeked Pintail, Laughing Gull, Least Sandpiper, Western Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpiper, White-rumped Sandpiper, Black-faced Grassquit, Black-necked Stilt, Great Egret, Royal Tern, Greater Yellowlegs, Short-billed Dowitcher, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Semipalmated Plover, Antillean Crested Hummingbird, Sandwich Tern, Ruddy Turnstone, Spotted Sandpiper, Caribbean Elaenia, Green Heron, Snowy Egret, Black-bellied Plover, Common Ground Dove, Gray Kingbird, Killdeer, Mangrove Yellow Warbler, Zenaida Dove, White-winged Dove, Common Gallinule, Western Cattle-Egret, Pectoral Sandpiper, Osprey, American Kestrel, White-crowned Pigeon, American Flamingo, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Lesser Antillean Bullfinch, American Coot, …

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