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Anguilla
This checklist includes all bird species found in Anguilla , based on the best information available at this time. It is based on a wide variety of sources that I collated over many years. I am pleased to offer these checklists as a service to birdwatchers. If you find any error, please do not hesitate to .
The taxonomic order and nomenclature follows Clements, version 2024. If you prefer to view the list based on a different authority, click on one of the list available below. Globally threatened species (status in red) were identified by Birdlife International in Birdlife Data Zone (species).
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Country or region: Anguilla [map]
Number of globally threatened species: 9
Number of introduced species: 3
Date last reviewed: 2005-05-01
Last modified: 2024-12-25
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| West Indian Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna arborea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Fulvous Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna bicolor | |
| Snow Goose | Anser caerulescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Wood Duck | Aix sponsa | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | |
| Cinnamon Teal | Spatula cyanoptera | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | Rare/Accidental |
| American Wigeon | Mareca americana | Rare/Accidental |
| White-cheeked Pintail | Anas bahamensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | Rare/Accidental |
| Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | |
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-tailed Duck | Clangula hyemalis | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Hooded Merganser | Lophodytes cucullatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | |
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| Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| Scaly-naped Pigeon | Patagioenas squamosa | |
| White-crowned Pigeon | Patagioenas leucocephala | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | Introduced species |
| Common Ground Dove | Columbina passerina | |
| White-winged Dove | Zenaida asiatica | |
| Zenaida Dove | Zenaida aurita | |
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| Smooth-billed Ani | Crotophaga ani | |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pearly-breasted Cuckoo | Coccyzus euleri | Rare/Accidental |
| Mangrove Cuckoo | Coccyzus minor | |
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| Common Nighthawk | Chordeiles minor | |
| Antillean Nighthawk | Chordeiles gundlachii | |
| White-tailed Nightjar | Hydropsalis cayennensis | |
| Chuck-will's-widow | Antrostomus carolinensis | Near-threatened |
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| Black Swift | Cypseloides niger | Vulnerable |
| White-collared Swift | Streptoprocne zonaris | |
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| Purple-throated Carib | Eulampis jugularis | Rare/Accidental |
| Green-throated Carib | Eulampis holosericeus | |
| Antillean Crested Hummingbird | Orthorhyncus cristatus | |
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| Clapper Rail | Rallus crepitans | |
| Sora | Porzana carolina | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Gallinule | Gallinula galeata | |
| American Coot | Fulica americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinica | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-necked Stilt | Himantopus mexicanus | |
| American Avocet | Recurvirostra americana | Rare/Accidental |
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| American Oystercatcher | Haematopus palliatus | |
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| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| American Golden-Plover | Pluvialis dominica | Rare/Accidental |
| Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Piping Plover | Charadrius melodus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Wilson's Plover | Anarhynchus wilsonia | Rare/Accidental |
| Snowy Plover | Anarhynchus nivosus | Near-threatened |
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| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Limosa haemastica | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | Rare/Accidental |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-necked Phalarope | Phalaropus lobatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | Rare/Accidental |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Willet | Tringa semipalmata | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Redshank | Tringa erythropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Near-threatened |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | Rare/Accidental |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Stint | Calidris minuta | Rare/Accidental |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Sandpiper | Calidris mauri | |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | Rare/Accidental |
| Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | |
| Franklin's Gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | Rare/Accidental |
| American Herring Gull | Larus smithsonianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | Rare/Accidental |
| Iceland Gull | Larus glaucoides | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Noddy | Anous minutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | |
| Least Tern | Sternula antillarum | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | Rare/Accidental |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | Rare/Accidental |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
| Royal Tern | Thalasseus maximus | |
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| American Flamingo | Phoenicopterus ruber | |
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| Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | Rare/Accidental |
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| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | |
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| Leach's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | Vulnerable |
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| Sargasso Shearwater | Puffinus lherminieri | |
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| Magnificent Frigatebird | Fregata magnificens | |
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| Northern Gannet | Morus bassanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | Rare/Accidental |
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| Double-crested Cormorant | Nannopterum auritum | |
| Neotropic Cormorant | Nannopterum brasilianum | |
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| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Roseate Spoonbill | Platalea ajaja | |
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| American White Pelican | Pelecanus erythrorhynchos | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Pelican | Pelecanus occidentalis | |
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| Yellow-crowned Night Heron | Nyctanassa violacea | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | Rare/Accidental |
| Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Reddish Egret | Egretta rufescens | Near-threatened |
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | Rare/Accidental |
| Green Heron | Butorides virescens | |
| Western Cattle-Egret | Ardea ibis | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Rare/Accidental |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | Rare/Accidental |
| Broad-winged Hawk | Buteo platypterus | |
| Red-tailed Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis | |
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| American Barn Owl | Tyto furcata | |
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| Burrowing Owl | Athene cunicularia | |
| Short-eared Owl | Asio flammeus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | Rare/Accidental |
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| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Sphyrapicus varius | |
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| American Kestrel | Falco sparverius | Rare/Accidental |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Caribbean Elaenia | Elaenia martinica | |
| Gray Kingbird | Tyrannus dominicensis | |
| Fork-tailed Flycatcher | Tyrannus savana | |
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| Black-whiskered Vireo | Vireo altiloquus | |
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| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | |
| Caribbean Martin | Progne dominicensis | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | |
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| Gray Catbird | Dumetella carolinensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Scaly-breasted Thrasher | Allenia fusca | |
| Pearly-eyed Thrasher | Margarops fuscatus | |
| Brown Trembler | Cinclocerthia ruficauda | |
| Tropical Mockingbird | Mimus gilvus | |
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| Forest Thrush | Turdus lherminieri | Near-threatened |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
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| Lesser Antillean Euphonia | Chlorophonia flavifrons | |
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| Bobolink | Dolichonyx oryzivorus | |
| Baltimore Oriole | Icterus galbula | Rare/Accidental |
| Shiny Cowbird | Molothrus bonariensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Carib Grackle | Quiscalus lugubris | |
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| Ovenbird | Seiurus aurocapilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Waterthrush | Parkesia noveboracensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia | |
| Prothonotary Warbler | Protonotaria citrea | Rare/Accidental |
| Connecticut Warbler | Oporornis agilis | |
| Hooded Warbler | Setophaga citrina | |
| American Redstart | Setophaga ruticilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Cape May Warbler | Setophaga tigrina | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Parula | Setophaga americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Blackburnian Warbler | Setophaga fusca | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow Warbler | Setophaga petechia | |
| Blackpoll Warbler | Setophaga striata | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | Setophaga dominica | |
| Prairie Warbler | Setophaga discolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | Setophaga virens | |
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| Scarlet Tanager | Piranga olivacea | Rare/Accidental |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Pheucticus ludovicianus | |
| Indigo Bunting | Passerina cyanea | |
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| Bananaquit | Coereba flaveola | |
| Lesser Antillean Bullfinch | Loxigilla noctis | |
| Black-faced Grassquit | Melanospiza bicolor | |
| Lesser Antillean Saltator | Saltator albicollis | |
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