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Basse-Terre
This checklist includes all bird species found in Basse-Terre , 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 2025. 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: Basse-Terre [map]
Number of globally threatened species: 10
Number of extinct species: 2
Number of introduced species: 9
Last modified: 2026-01-08
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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 |
| Wood Duck | Aix sponsa | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | Rare/Accidental |
| American Wigeon | Mareca americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | 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 | |
| Masked Duck | Nomonyx dominicus | |
| Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | |
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| Red Junglefowl | Gallus gallus | Introduced species |
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| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| Scaly-naped Pigeon | Patagioenas squamosa | |
| White-crowned Pigeon | Patagioenas leucocephala | Near-threatened |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | Introduced species |
| Common Ground Dove | Columbina passerina | |
| Ruddy Quail-Dove | Geotrygon montana | |
| Bridled Quail-Dove | Geotrygon mystacea | |
| White-winged Dove | Zenaida asiatica | |
| Zenaida Dove | Zenaida aurita | |
| Eared Dove | Zenaida auriculata | Rare/Accidental |
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| Smooth-billed Ani | Crotophaga ani | |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | |
| Mangrove Cuckoo | Coccyzus minor | |
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| Common Nighthawk | Chordeiles minor | Rare/Accidental |
| Antillean Nighthawk | Chordeiles gundlachii | Rare/Accidental |
| Chuck-will's-widow | Antrostomus carolinensis | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Black Swift | Cypseloides niger | Vulnerable |
| White-collared Swift | Streptoprocne zonaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Antillean Swift | Chaetura martinica | Endemic (country/region) |
| Alpine Swift | Tachymarptis melba | Rare/Accidental |
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| Purple-throated Carib | Eulampis jugularis | Endemic (country/region) |
| Green-throated Carib | Eulampis holosericeus | Endemic (country/region) |
| Antillean Crested Hummingbird | Orthorhyncus cristatus | Endemic (country/region) |
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| Clapper Rail | Rallus crepitans | |
| Sora | Porzana carolina | |
| Common Gallinule | Gallinula galeata | |
| American Coot | Fulica americana | |
| Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinica | |
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| Black-necked Stilt | Himantopus mexicanus | |
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| American Oystercatcher | Haematopus palliatus | |
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| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | Vulnerable |
| American Golden-Plover | Pluvialis dominica | |
| Pacific Golden-Plover | Pluvialis fulva | Rare/Accidental |
| Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | |
| Wilson's Plover | Anarhynchus wilsonia | |
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| Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | |
| Hudsonian Whimbrel | Numenius hudsonicus | |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Limosa haemastica | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Marbled Godwit | Limosa fedoa | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | Vulnerable |
| Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Red Phalarope | Phalaropus fulicarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | |
| Green Sandpiper | Tringa ochropus | Rare/Accidental |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Vulnerable |
| Willet | Tringa semipalmata | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | Near-threatened |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | Near-threatened |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Near-threatened |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | Rare/Accidental |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | Near-threatened |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | Vulnerable |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | Near-threatened |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | |
| Western Sandpiper | Calidris mauri | |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | Near-threatened |
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| Long-tailed Jaeger | Stercorarius longicaudus | Rare/Accidental |
| Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
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| Bonaparte's Gull | Chroicocephalus philadelphia | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | Rare/Accidental |
| Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | |
| Franklin's Gull | Leucophaeus pipixcan | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | |
| American Herring Gull | Larus smithsonianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | |
| Iceland Gull | Larus glaucoides | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | |
| Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | |
| Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | |
| Least Tern | Sternula antillarum | |
| Gull-billed Tern | Gelochelidon nilotica | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | Rare/Accidental |
| Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Royal Tern | Thalasseus maximus | |
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| American Flamingo | Phoenicopterus ruber | Rare/Accidental |
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| Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | |
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| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | |
| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | |
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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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| Black-capped Petrel | Pterodroma hasitata | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris borealis | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Near-threatened |
| Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | |
| Sargasso Shearwater | Puffinus lherminieri | |
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| Magnificent Frigatebird | Fregata magnificens | |
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| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | |
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| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Least Bittern | Botaurus exilis | |
| Yellow-crowned Night Heron | Nyctanassa violacea | |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | |
| Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Reef-Heron | Egretta gularis | Rare/Accidental |
| Green Heron | Butorides virescens | |
| Western Cattle-Egret | Ardea ibis | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | |
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| Brown Pelican | Pelecanus occidentalis | |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Swallow-tailed Kite | Elanoides forficatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Marsh Harrier | Circus aeruginosus | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | Rare/Accidental |
| Black Kite | Milvus migrans | Rare/Accidental |
| Broad-winged Hawk | Buteo platypterus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Ringed Kingfisher | Megaceryle torquata | |
| Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | |
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| Guadeloupe Woodpecker | Melanerpes herminieri | Endemic (country/region) |
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| American Kestrel | Falco sparverius | |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Guadeloupe Amazon | Amazona violacea | Endemic (country/region) Extinct |
| Guadeloupe Parakeet | Psittacara labati | Endemic (country/region) Extinct |
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| Caribbean Elaenia | Elaenia martinica | |
| Lesser Antillean Pewee | Contopus latirostris | |
| Lesser Antillean Flycatcher | Myiarchus oberi | Endemic (country/region) |
| Gray Kingbird | Tyrannus dominicensis | |
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| Yellow-throated Vireo | Vireo flavifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-eyed Vireo | Vireo olivaceus | |
| Black-whiskered Vireo | Vireo altiloquus | |
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| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | |
| Caribbean Martin | Progne dominicensis | |
| Brown-chested Martin | Progne tapera | Rare/Accidental |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | |
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| Kalinago Wren | Troglodytes martinicensis | Extirpated |
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| Scaly-breasted Thrasher | Allenia fusca | Endemic (country/region) |
| Pearly-eyed Thrasher | Margarops fuscatus | |
| Brown Trembler | Cinclocerthia ruficauda | Endemic (country/region) |
| Tropical Mockingbird | Mimus gilvus | |
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| Swainson's Thrush | Catharus ustulatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Forest Thrush | Turdus lherminieri | Endemic (country/region) Near-threatened |
| Spectacled Thrush | Turdus nudigenis | |
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| Cedar Waxwing | Bombycilla cedrorum | Rare/Accidental |
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| Northern Red Bishop | Euplectes franciscanus | Introduced species |
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| Scaly-breasted Munia | Lonchura punctulata | Introduced species |
| White-headed Munia | Lonchura maja | Rare/Accidental |
| Orange-cheeked Waxbill | Estrilda melpoda | |
| Black-rumped Waxbill | Estrilda troglodytes | Introduced species |
| Red Avadavat | Amandava amandava | Introduced species |
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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 | Near-threatened |
| Baltimore Oriole | Icterus galbula | Rare/Accidental |
| Shiny Cowbird | Molothrus bonariensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Great-tailed Grackle | Quiscalus mexicanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Carib Grackle | Quiscalus lugubris | |
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| Ovenbird | Seiurus aurocapilla | |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | Parkesia motacilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Waterthrush | Parkesia noveboracensis | |
| Blue-winged Warbler | Vermivora cyanoptera | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia | |
| Prothonotary Warbler | Protonotaria citrea | |
| Tennessee Warbler | Leiothlypis peregrina | Rare/Accidental |
| Connecticut Warbler | Oporornis agilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Kentucky Warbler | Geothlypis formosa | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas | Rare/Accidental |
| Plumbeous Warbler | Setophaga plumbea | Endemic (country/region) |
| Hooded Warbler | Setophaga citrina | Rare/Accidental |
| American Redstart | Setophaga ruticilla | |
| Cape May Warbler | Setophaga tigrina | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Parula | Setophaga americana | |
| Magnolia Warbler | Setophaga magnolia | Rare/Accidental |
| Blackburnian Warbler | Setophaga fusca | Rare/Accidental |
| Mangrove 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 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | Setophaga dominica | Rare/Accidental |
| Prairie Warbler | Setophaga discolor | |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | Setophaga virens | Rare/Accidental |
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| Scarlet Tanager | Piranga olivacea | Rare/Accidental |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Pheucticus ludovicianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Indigo Bunting | Passerina cyanea | Rare/Accidental |
| Dickcissel | Spiza americana | Rare/Accidental |
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| Grassland Yellow-Finch | Sicalis luteola | Introduced species |
| Bananaquit | Coereba flaveola | |
| Lesser Antillean Bullfinch | Loxigilla noctis | Endemic (country/region) |
| Black-faced Grassquit | Melanospiza bicolor | |
| Lesser Antillean Saltator | Saltator albicollis | Endemic (country/region) |
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