This checklist includes all bird species found in Sint-Maarten , 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: Sint-Maarten [map]
Other names: Sint Maarten
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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 |
Muscovy Duck | Cairina moschata | Introduced species |
Wood Duck | Aix sponsa | Rare/Accidental |
Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | |
Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | Rare/Accidental |
Gadwall | Mareca strepera | Rare/Accidental |
American Wigeon | Mareca americana | Rare/Accidental |
Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | Introduced species |
White-cheeked Pintail | Anas bahamensis | |
Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | Rare/Accidental |
Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | Rare/Accidental |
Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | Rare/Accidental |
Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | Rare/Accidental |
Bufflehead | Bucephala albeola | Rare/Accidental |
Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | Rare/Accidental |
Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | |
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Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris | Introduced species |
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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 | Rare/Accidental |
Bare-eyed Pigeon | Patagioenas corensis | Introduced species |
White-crowned Pigeon | Patagioenas leucocephala | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Eurasian Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | Introduced species |
Common Ground Dove | Columbina passerina | |
Bridled Quail-Dove | Geotrygon mystacea | Rare/Accidental |
White-winged Dove | Zenaida asiatica | Rare/Accidental |
Zenaida Dove | Zenaida aurita | |
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Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | Rare/Accidental |
Mangrove Cuckoo | Coccyzus minor | Rare/Accidental |
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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 | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
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Purple-throated Carib | Eulampis jugularis | |
Green-throated Carib | Eulampis holosericeus | |
Antillean Crested Hummingbird | Orthorhyncus cristatus | |
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Sora | Porzana carolina | Rare/Accidental |
Spotted Crake | Porzana porzana | Rare/Accidental |
Common Gallinule | Gallinula galeata | |
American Coot | Fulica americana | |
Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinica | Rare/Accidental |
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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 | Rare/Accidental |
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | Near-threatened |
Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | |
Piping Plover | Charadrius melodus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Wilson's Plover | Anarhynchus wilsonia | |
Collared Plover | Anarhynchus collaris | Rare/Accidental |
Snowy Plover | Anarhynchus nivosus | Near-threatened |
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Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | Rare/Accidental |
Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
Hudsonian Godwit | Limosa haemastica | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | Vulnerable |
Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | Rare/Accidental |
Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | |
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 | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Ruff | Calidris pugnax | Rare/Accidental |
Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | Near-threatened |
Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
Baird's Sandpiper | Calidris bairdii | Rare/Accidental |
White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | Rare/Accidental 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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Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | |
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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 | |
American Herring Gull | Larus smithsonianus | Rare/Accidental |
Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | Rare/Accidental |
Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | 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 |
Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | Rare/Accidental |
Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri | Rare/Accidental |
Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | |
Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | |
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 | |
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White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | |
Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | |
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Wilson's Storm-Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | Rare/Accidental |
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Leach's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | Vulnerable |
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Black-capped Petrel | Pterodroma hasitata | Endangered |
Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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 | Rare/Accidental |
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Double-crested Cormorant | Nannopterum auritum | Rare/Accidental |
Neotropic Cormorant | Nannopterum brasilianum | Rare/Accidental |
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Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
Roseate Spoonbill | Platalea ajaja | Rare/Accidental |
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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 | |
Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | |
Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor | |
Reddish Egret | Egretta rufescens | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | |
Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | Rare/Accidental |
Green Heron | Butorides virescens | |
Western Cattle-Egret | Ardea ibis | |
Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | |
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Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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Swallow-tailed Kite | Elanoides forficatus | Rare/Accidental |
Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | |
Broad-winged Hawk | Buteo platypterus | Rare/Accidental |
Red-tailed Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis | Extirpated |
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American Barn Owl | Tyto furcata | Rare/Accidental |
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Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | |
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Sphyrapicus varius | |
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American Kestrel | Falco sparverius | |
Merlin | Falco columbarius | |
Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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Rose-ringed Parakeet | Psittacula krameri | Introduced species |
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Orange-winged Amazon | Amazona amazonica | Rare/Accidental |
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Caribbean Elaenia | Elaenia martinica | |
Gray Kingbird | Tyrannus dominicensis | |
Fork-tailed Flycatcher | Tyrannus savana | Rare/Accidental |
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White-eyed Vireo | Vireo griseus | Rare/Accidental |
Yellow-throated Vireo | Vireo flavifrons | Rare/Accidental |
Black-whiskered Vireo | Vireo altiloquus | |
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Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | Rare/Accidental |
Tree Swallow | Tachycineta bicolor | Rare/Accidental |
Caribbean Martin | Progne dominicensis | |
Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | Rare/Accidental |
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Scaly-breasted Thrasher | Allenia fusca | |
Pearly-eyed Thrasher | Margarops fuscatus | |
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Spectacled Thrush | Turdus nudigenis | Rare/Accidental |
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House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
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Bobolink | Dolichonyx oryzivorus | Rare/Accidental |
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 |
Worm-eating Warbler | Helmitheros vermivorum | Rare/Accidental |
Louisiana Waterthrush | Parkesia motacilla | Rare/Accidental |
Northern Waterthrush | Parkesia noveboracensis | Rare/Accidental |
Blue-winged Warbler | Vermivora cyanoptera | Rare/Accidental |
Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia | |
Prothonotary Warbler | Protonotaria citrea | Rare/Accidental |
Connecticut Warbler | Oporornis agilis | Rare/Accidental |
Kentucky Warbler | Geothlypis formosa | Rare/Accidental |
Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas | Rare/Accidental |
Hooded Warbler | Setophaga citrina | |
American Redstart | Setophaga ruticilla | |
Cape May Warbler | Setophaga tigrina | |
Northern Parula | Setophaga americana | |
Magnolia Warbler | Setophaga magnolia | 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 | |
Palm Warbler | Setophaga palmarum | Rare/Accidental |
Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | Rare/Accidental |
Prairie Warbler | Setophaga discolor | |
Black-throated Green Warbler | Setophaga virens | Rare/Accidental |
Canada Warbler | Cardellina canadensis | 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 |
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Bananaquit | Coereba flaveola | |
Lesser Antillean Bullfinch | Loxigilla noctis | |
Black-faced Grassquit | Melanospiza bicolor |
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