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Dominica
This checklist includes all bird species found in Dominica , 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 Howard and Moore 4th edition (incl. corrigenda vol.1-2). 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: Dominica [map]
Number of endemics: 2
Number of introduced species: 5
Date last reviewed: 2005-05-01
Last modified: 2024-11-27
See also: http://www.natureisland.com/bird.html
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| Black-bellied Whistling Duck | Dendrocygna autumnalis | Rare/Accidental |
| West Indian Whistling Duck | Dendrocygna arborea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Fulvous Whistling Duck | Dendrocygna bicolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Masked Duck | Nomonyx dominicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | Rare/Accidental |
| American Wigeon | Mareca americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Teal | Anas crecca | |
| Muscovy Duck | Cairina moschata | Rare/Accidental |
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| Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | Rare/Accidental |
| Least Grebe | Tachybaptus dominicus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Rock Dove | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| Eurasian Collared Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | Rare/Accidental |
| African Collared Dove | Streptopelia roseogrisea | Introduced species |
| White-crowned Pigeon | Patagioenas leucocephala | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Scaly-naped Pigeon | Patagioenas squamosa | |
| Bridled Quail Dove | Geotrygon mystacea | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Quail Dove | Geotrygon montana | |
| White-winged Dove | Zenaida asiatica | Rare/Accidental |
| Zenaida Dove | Zenaida aurita | |
| Common Ground Dove | Columbina passerina | |
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| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | Rare/Accidental |
| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Common Nighthawk | Chordeiles minor | |
| Antillean Nighthawk | Chordeiles gundlachii | Rare/Accidental |
| White-tailed Nightjar | Hydropsalis cayennensis | |
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| Black Swift | Cypseloides niger | Vulnerable |
| Lesser Antillean Swift | Chaetura martinica | |
| Chimney Swift | Chaetura pelagica | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
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| Green-throated Carib | Eulampis holosericeus | |
| Purple-throated Carib | Eulampis jugularis | |
| Blue-headed Hummingbird | Cyanophaia bicolor | Endemic (country/region) Near-threatened |
| Antillean Crested Hummingbird | Orthorhyncus cristatus | |
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| Smooth-billed Ani | Crotophaga ani | |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus erythropthalmus | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Mangrove Cuckoo | Coccyzus minor | |
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| Sora | Porzana carolina | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Gallinule | Gallinula galeata | Rare/Accidental |
| American Coot | Fulica americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Caribbean Coot | Fulica caribaea | Rare/Accidental |
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| Wilson's Storm-petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | |
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| Leach's Storm-petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | |
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| Black-capped Petrel | Pterodroma hasitata | Extirpated |
| Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | Rare/Accidental |
| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris borealis | Rare/Accidental |
| Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Audubon's Shearwater | Puffinus lherminieri | Rare/Accidental |
| Bulwer's Petrel | Bulweria bulwerii | Rare/Accidental |
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| Wood Stork | Mycteria americana | |
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| Brown Pelican | Pelecanus occidentalis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Least Bittern | Ixobrychus exilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-crowned Night Heron | Nyctanassa violacea | Rare/Accidental |
| Green Heron | Butorides virescens | |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Reddish Egret | Egretta rufescens | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | |
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | Rare/Accidental |
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| White Ibis | Eudocimus albus | Rare/Accidental |
| Scarlet Ibis | Eudocimus ruber | Rare/Accidental |
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Magnificent Frigatebird | Fregata magnificens | |
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| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | Rare/Accidental |
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| Neotropic Cormorant | Phalacrocorax brasilianus | Rare/Accidental |
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| American Oystercatcher | Haematopus palliatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
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| Grey Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| American Golden Plover | Pluvialis dominica | Rare/Accidental |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Wilson's Plover | Charadrius wilsonia | |
| Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | Rare/Accidental |
| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Limosa haemastica | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | Rare/Accidental |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Calidris bairdii | Rare/Accidental |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | Near-threatened |
| Western Sandpiper | Calidris mauri | Rare/Accidental |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | |
| Willet | Tringa semipalmata | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Vulnerable |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Long-tailed Skua | Stercorarius longicaudus | Rare/Accidental |
| Arctic Skua | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pomarine Skua | Stercorarius pomarinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Skua | Stercorarius skua | Rare/Accidental |
| South Polar Skua | Stercorarius maccormicki | Rare/Accidental |
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| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sabine's Gull | Xema sabini | |
| Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | |
| Franklin's Gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | Rare/Accidental |
| American Herring Gull | Larus smithsonianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | Rare/Accidental |
| Least Tern | Sternula antillarum | Rare/Accidental |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | Rare/Accidental |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | Rare/Accidental |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | Rare/Accidental |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Royal Tern | Thalasseus maximus | |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | Rare/Accidental |
| Broad-winged Hawk | Buteo platypterus | |
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| Common Barn Owl | Tyto alba | |
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| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Sphyrapicus varius | Rare/Accidental |
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| Ringed Kingfisher | Megaceryle torquata | |
| Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | Rare/Accidental |
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| American Kestrel | Falco sparverius | |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Red-necked Parrot | Amazona arausiaca | Endemic Vulnerable |
| Imperial Parrot | Amazona imperialis | Endemic Critically endangered |
| Brown-throated Parakeet | Eupsittula pertinax | Introduced species |
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| Caribbean Elaenia | Elaenia martinica | |
| Eastern Kingbird | Tyrannus tyrannus | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Kingbird | Tyrannus dominicensis | |
| Lesser Antillean Flycatcher | Myiarchus oberi | |
| Lesser Antillean Pewee | Contopus latirostris | |
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| Yellow-throated Vireo | Vireo flavifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-whiskered Vireo | Vireo altiloquus | |
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| Scaly-breasted Munia | Lonchura punctulata | Introduced species |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
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| Antillean Euphonia | Euphonia musica | Rare/Accidental |
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| Ovenbird | Seiurus aurocapilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | Parkesia motacilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Waterthrush | Parkesia noveboracensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia | |
| Prothonotary Warbler | Protonotaria citrea | Rare/Accidental |
| Mourning Warbler | Geothlypis philadelphia | Rare/Accidental |
| Kentucky Warbler | Geothlypis formosa | |
| Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas | Rare/Accidental |
| Plumbeous Warbler | Setophaga plumbea | Endemic (country/region) |
| Hooded Warbler | Setophaga citrina | Rare/Accidental |
| American Redstart | Setophaga ruticilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Cape May Warbler | Setophaga tigrina | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Parula | Setophaga americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Magnolia Warbler | Setophaga magnolia | Rare/Accidental |
| Bay-breasted Warbler | Setophaga castanea | Rare/Accidental |
| Blackburnian Warbler | Setophaga fusca | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow Warbler | Setophaga petechia | |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | Setophaga pensylvanica | Rare/Accidental |
| Blackpoll Warbler | Setophaga striata | Near-threatened |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | Setophaga caerulescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Palm Warbler | Setophaga palmarum | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | Setophaga virens | Rare/Accidental |
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| Bobolink | Dolichonyx oryzivorus | Rare/Accidental |
| Venezuelan Troupial | Icterus icterus | Rare/Accidental |
| Shiny Cowbird | Molothrus bonariensis | |
| Carib Grackle | Quiscalus lugubris | |
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| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Pheucticus ludovicianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Indigo Bunting | Passerina cyanea | Rare/Accidental |
| Scarlet Tanager | Piranga olivacea | Rare/Accidental |
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| Lesser Antillean Saltator | Saltator albicollis | |
| Bananaquit | Coereba flaveola | |
| Black-faced Grassquit | Melanospiza bicolor | |
| Lesser Antillean Bullfinch | Loxigilla noctis | |
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| Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | Rare/Accidental |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Sand Martin | Riparia riparia | Rare/Accidental |
| Caribbean Martin | Progne dominicensis | |
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| Cedar Waxwing | Bombycilla cedrorum | Rare/Accidental |
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| House Wren | Troglodytes aedon | |
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| Scaly-breasted Thrasher | Allenia fusca | |
| Pearly-eyed Thrasher | Margarops fuscatus | |
| Brown Trembler | Cinclocerthia ruficauda | |
| Tropical Mockingbird | Mimus gilvus | |
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| Rufous-throated Solitaire | Myadestes genibarbis | |
| Spectacled Thrush | Turdus nudigenis | Rare/Accidental |
| Forest Thrush | Turdus lherminieri | Endemic (country/region) Near-threatened |
| Red-legged Thrush | Turdus plumbeus | |
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