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Jamaica
This checklist includes all bird species found in Jamaica , 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 2022. 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: Jamaica [map]
Number of species: 329
Number of endemics: 29
Number of globally threatened species: 16
Number of extinct species: 1
Number of introduced species: 14
Date last reviewed: 2005-05-01
Last modified: 2022-08-29
Number of endemics: 29
Number of globally threatened species: 16
Number of extinct species: 1
Number of introduced species: 14
Date last reviewed: 2005-05-01
Last modified: 2022-08-29
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| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna autumnalis | Rare/Accidental |
| West Indian Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna arborea | Near-threatened |
| Fulvous Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna bicolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Snow Goose | Anser caerulescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Canada Goose | Branta canadensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Wood Duck | Aix sponsa | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | |
| Cinnamon Teal | Spatula cyanoptera | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | Rare/Accidental |
| 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 | |
| Canvasback | Aythya valisineria | Rare/Accidental |
| Redhead | Aythya americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Scaup | Aythya marila | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | Rare/Accidental |
| Bufflehead | Bucephala albeola | Rare/Accidental |
| Masked Duck | Nomonyx dominicus | |
| Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | |
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| Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris | Introduced species |
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| Northern Bobwhite | Colinus virginianus | Extirpated Near-threatened |
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| American Flamingo | Phoenicopterus ruber | Rare/Accidental |
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| Least Grebe | Tachybaptus dominicus | |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | |
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| Rock Pigeon | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| Scaly-naped Pigeon | Patagioenas squamosa | Rare/Accidental |
| White-crowned Pigeon | Patagioenas leucocephala | Near-threatened |
| Plain Pigeon | Patagioenas inornata | Near-threatened |
| Ring-tailed Pigeon | Patagioenas caribaea | Endemic Vulnerable |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | Introduced species |
| Common Ground Dove | Columbina passerina | |
| Blue-headed Quail-Dove | Starnoenas cyanocephala | Introduced species Endangered |
| Crested Quail-Dove | Geotrygon versicolor | Endemic Near-threatened |
| Ruddy Quail-Dove | Geotrygon montana | |
| Caribbean Dove | Leptotila jamaicensis | |
| White-winged Dove | Zenaida asiatica | |
| Zenaida Dove | Zenaida aurita | |
| Mourning Dove | Zenaida macroura | |
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| Smooth-billed Ani | Crotophaga ani | |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Mangrove Cuckoo | Coccyzus minor | |
| Black-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus erythropthalmus | Rare/Accidental |
| Chestnut-bellied Cuckoo | Coccyzus pluvialis | Endemic |
| Jamaican Lizard-Cuckoo | Coccyzus vetula | Endemic |
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| Common Nighthawk | Chordeiles minor | Rare/Accidental |
| Antillean Nighthawk | Chordeiles gundlachii | |
| Jamaican Pauraque | Siphonorhis americana | Endemic Critically endangered |
| Chuck-will's-widow | Antrostomus carolinensis | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | Antrostomus vociferus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
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| Northern Potoo | Nyctibius jamaicensis | |
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| Black Swift | Cypseloides niger | Vulnerable |
| White-collared Swift | Streptoprocne zonaris | |
| Chimney Swift | Chaetura pelagica | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Antillean Palm Swift | Tachornis phoenicobia | |
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| Jamaican Mango | Anthracothorax mango | Endemic |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Archilochus colubris | Rare/Accidental |
| Vervain Hummingbird | Mellisuga minima | |
| Red-billed Streamertail | Trochilus polytmus | Endemic |
| Black-billed Streamertail | Trochilus scitulus | Endemic |
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| King Rail | Rallus elegans | Near-threatened |
| Clapper Rail | Rallus crepitans | |
| Spotted Rail | Pardirallus maculatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Uniform Crake | Amaurolimnas concolor | Extirpated |
| Sora | Porzana carolina | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Gallinule | Gallinula galeata | |
| American Coot | Fulica americana | |
| Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinica | |
| Yellow-breasted Crake | Hapalocrex flaviventer | |
| Black Rail | Laterallus jamaicensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Limpkin | Aramus guarauna | |
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| Black-necked Stilt | Himantopus mexicanus | |
| American Avocet | Recurvirostra americana | Rare/Accidental |
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| American Oystercatcher | Haematopus palliatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| American Golden-Plover | Pluvialis dominica | Rare/Accidental |
| Pacific Golden-Plover | Pluvialis fulva | Rare/Accidental |
| Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Wilson's Plover | Charadrius wilsonia | |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | |
| Piping Plover | Charadrius melodus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | |
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| Northern Jacana | Jacana spinosa | |
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| Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | Rare/Accidental |
| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Long-billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Marbled Godwit | Limosa fedoa | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | Rare/Accidental |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Rare/Accidental |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | Near-threatened |
| Western Sandpiper | Calidris mauri | |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | Rare/Accidental |
| 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 | |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | |
| Willet | Tringa semipalmata | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | |
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| Pomarine Jaeger | Stercorarius pomarinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Parasitic Jaeger | Stercorarius parasiticus | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-tailed Jaeger | Stercorarius longicaudus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-legged Kittiwake | Rissa tridactyla | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Bonaparte's Gull | Chroicocephalus philadelphia | |
| Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | Rare/Accidental |
| Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | |
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Herring Gull | Larus argentatus | |
| 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 |
| Black Tern | Chlidonias niger | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | Rare/Accidental |
| Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri | Rare/Accidental |
| Royal Tern | Thalasseus maximus | |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | |
| Black Skimmer | Rynchops niger | Rare/Accidental |
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| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | |
| 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 | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
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| Black-capped Petrel | Pterodroma hasitata | Rare/Accidental |
| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Barolo Shearwater | Puffinus baroli | Rare/Accidental |
| Audubon's Shearwater | Puffinus lherminieri | Rare/Accidental |
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| Wood Stork | Mycteria americana | Rare/Accidental |
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| Magnificent Frigatebird | Fregata magnificens | |
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| Masked Booby | Sula dactylatra | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | Rare/Accidental |
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| Anhinga | Anhinga anhinga | Rare/Accidental |
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| Double-crested Cormorant | Nannopterum auritum | Rare/Accidental |
| Neotropic Cormorant | Nannopterum brasilianum | Rare/Accidental |
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| American White Pelican | Pelecanus erythrorhynchos | Rare/Accidental |
| Brown Pelican | Pelecanus occidentalis | |
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| American Bittern | Botaurus lentiginosus | Rare/Accidental |
| Least Bittern | Ixobrychus exilis | |
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | |
| Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | |
| Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor | |
| Reddish Egret | Egretta rufescens | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Green Heron | Butorides virescens | |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Nyctanassa violacea | |
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| White Ibis | Eudocimus albus | |
| Scarlet Ibis | Eudocimus ruber | Rare/Accidental |
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Roseate Spoonbill | Platalea ajaja | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black Vulture | Coragyps atratus | Rare/Accidental |
| Turkey Vulture | Cathartes aura | |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| Swallow-tailed Kite | Elanoides forficatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Snail Kite | Rostrhamus sociabilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Mississippi Kite | Ictinia mississippiensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | Rare/Accidental |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | Accipiter striatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Broad-winged Hawk | Buteo platypterus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-tailed Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis | |
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| Barn Owl | Tyto alba | |
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| Jamaican Owl | Asio grammicus | Endemic |
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| Jamaican Tody | Todus todus | Endemic |
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| Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | |
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| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Sphyrapicus varius | Rare/Accidental |
| Jamaican Woodpecker | Melanerpes radiolatus | Endemic |
| Fernandina's Flicker | Colaptes fernandinae | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
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| Crested Caracara | Caracara plancus | |
| American Kestrel | Falco sparverius | |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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| Yellow-naped Parrot | Amazona auropalliata | Introduced species Critically endangered |
| Yellow-headed Parrot | Amazona oratrix | Introduced species Endangered |
| Black-billed Parrot | Amazona agilis | Endemic Endangered |
| Yellow-billed Parrot | Amazona collaria | Endemic Vulnerable |
| Green-rumped Parrotlet | Forpus passerinus | Introduced species |
| Olive-throated Parakeet | Eupsittula nana | |
| Cuban Macaw | Ara tricolor | Extinct |
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| Jamaican Becard | Pachyramphus niger | Endemic |
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| Jamaican Elaenia | Myiopagis cotta | Endemic |
| Greater Antillean Elaenia | Elaenia fallax | |
| Jamaican Pewee | Contopus pallidus | Endemic |
| Western Wood-Pewee | Contopus sordidulus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | Contopus virens | Rare/Accidental |
| Willow Flycatcher | Empidonax traillii | Rare/Accidental |
| Sad Flycatcher | Myiarchus barbirostris | Endemic |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | Myiarchus crinitus | Rare/Accidental |
| Rufous-tailed Flycatcher | Myiarchus validus | Endemic |
| Stolid Flycatcher | Myiarchus stolidus | |
| Eastern Kingbird | Tyrannus tyrannus | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Kingbird | Tyrannus dominicensis | |
| Loggerhead Kingbird | Tyrannus caudifasciatus | |
| Fork-tailed Flycatcher | Tyrannus savana | Rare/Accidental |
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| Blue Mountain Vireo | Vireo osburni | Endemic Near-threatened |
| White-eyed Vireo | Vireo griseus | Rare/Accidental |
| Jamaican Vireo | Vireo modestus | Endemic |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | Vireo flavifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-headed Vireo | Vireo solitarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Philadelphia Vireo | Vireo philadelphicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Warbling Vireo | Vireo gilvus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-eyed Vireo | Vireo olivaceus | |
| Black-whiskered Vireo | Vireo altiloquus | |
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| Black-billed Magpie | Pica hudsonia | Extirpated |
| Jamaican Crow | Corvus jamaicensis | Endemic Near-threatened |
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| Eurasian Skylark | Alauda arvensis | Extirpated |
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| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Stelgidopteryx serripennis | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Martin | Progne subis | Rare/Accidental |
| Caribbean Martin | Progne dominicensis | |
| Tree Swallow | Tachycineta bicolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Golden Swallow | Tachycineta euchrysea | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | Rare/Accidental |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | Rare/Accidental |
| Cave Swallow | Petrochelidon fulva | |
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| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | Corthylio calendula | Rare/Accidental |
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| European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | Introduced species |
| Common Myna | Acridotheres tristis | Introduced species |
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| Gray Catbird | Dumetella carolinensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Bahama Mockingbird | Mimus gundlachii | |
| Northern Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | |
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| Rufous-throated Solitaire | Myadestes genibarbis | |
| Veery | Catharus fuscescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | Catharus minimus | |
| Bicknell's Thrush | Catharus bicknelli | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
| Swainson's Thrush | Catharus ustulatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Wood Thrush | Hylocichla mustelina | Rare/Accidental |
| White-eyed Thrush | Turdus jamaicensis | Endemic |
| American Robin | Turdus migratorius | Rare/Accidental |
| White-chinned Thrush | Turdus aurantius | Endemic |
| Red-legged Thrush | Turdus plumbeus | |
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| Cedar Waxwing | Bombycilla cedrorum | Rare/Accidental |
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| Northern Red Bishop | Euplectes franciscanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-crowned Bishop | Euplectes afer | Introduced species |
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| Scaly-breasted Munia | Lonchura punctulata | Introduced species |
| Tricolored Munia | Lonchura malacca | |
| Chestnut Munia | Lonchura atricapilla | Introduced species |
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| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Rare/Accidental |
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| American Pipit | Anthus rubescens | Rare/Accidental |
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| Jamaican Euphonia | Euphonia jamaica | Endemic |
| Hispaniolan Crossbill | Loxia megaplaga | Rare/Accidental Endangered |
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| Grasshopper Sparrow | Ammodramus savannarum | |
| Lark Sparrow | Chondestes grammacus | Rare/Accidental |
| Dark-eyed Junco | Junco hyemalis | Rare/Accidental |
| White-crowned Sparrow | Zonotrichia leucophrys | Rare/Accidental |
| Savannah Sparrow | Passerculus sandwichensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | Melospiza lincolnii | Rare/Accidental |
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| Jamaican Spindalis | Spindalis nigricephala | Endemic |
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| Yellow-breasted Chat | Icteria virens | Rare/Accidental |
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| Bobolink | Dolichonyx oryzivorus | |
| Orchard Oriole | Icterus spurius | Rare/Accidental |
| Venezuelan Troupial | Icterus icterus | Extirpated |
| Jamaican Oriole | Icterus leucopteryx | |
| Baltimore Oriole | Icterus galbula | Rare/Accidental |
| Jamaican Blackbird | Nesopsar nigerrimus | Endemic Endangered |
| Shiny Cowbird | Molothrus bonariensis | Introduced species |
| Great-tailed Grackle | Quiscalus mexicanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Greater Antillean Grackle | Quiscalus niger | |
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| Ovenbird | Seiurus aurocapilla | |
| Worm-eating Warbler | Helmitheros vermivorum | Rare/Accidental |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | Parkesia motacilla | |
| Northern Waterthrush | Parkesia noveboracensis | |
| Golden-winged Warbler | Vermivora chrysoptera | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Blue-winged Warbler | Vermivora cyanoptera | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia | |
| Prothonotary Warbler | Protonotaria citrea | Rare/Accidental |
| Swainson's Warbler | Limnothlypis swainsonii | Rare/Accidental |
| Tennessee Warbler | Leiothlypis peregrina | Rare/Accidental |
| Orange-crowned Warbler | Leiothlypis celata | Rare/Accidental |
| Nashville Warbler | Leiothlypis ruficapilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Connecticut Warbler | Oporornis agilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Mourning Warbler | Geothlypis philadelphia | Rare/Accidental |
| Kentucky Warbler | Geothlypis formosa | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas | |
| Arrowhead Warbler | Setophaga pharetra | Endemic |
| Hooded Warbler | Setophaga citrina | Rare/Accidental |
| American Redstart | Setophaga ruticilla | |
| Kirtland's Warbler | Setophaga kirtlandii | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Cape May Warbler | Setophaga tigrina | |
| Cerulean Warbler | Setophaga cerulea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Northern Parula | Setophaga americana | |
| 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 | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | Setophaga caerulescens | |
| Palm Warbler | Setophaga palmarum | |
| Pine Warbler | Setophaga pinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | Setophaga dominica | |
| Prairie Warbler | Setophaga discolor | |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | Setophaga virens | Rare/Accidental |
| Canada Warbler | Cardellina canadensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Wilson's Warbler | Cardellina pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
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| Summer Tanager | Piranga rubra | Rare/Accidental |
| Scarlet Tanager | Piranga olivacea | Rare/Accidental |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | Pheucticus ludovicianus | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue Grosbeak | Passerina caerulea | Rare/Accidental |
| Indigo Bunting | Passerina cyanea | Rare/Accidental |
| Painted Bunting | Passerina ciris | Rare/Accidental |
| Dickcissel | Spiza americana | Rare/Accidental |
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| Red-legged Honeycreeper | Cyanerpes cyaneus | Rare/Accidental |
| Saffron Finch | Sicalis flaveola | Introduced species |
| Bananaquit | Coereba flaveola | |
| Yellow-faced Grassquit | Tiaris olivaceus | |
| Orangequit | Euneornis campestris | Endemic |
| Greater Antillean Bullfinch | Melopyrrha violacea | |
| Yellow-shouldered Grassquit | Loxipasser anoxanthus | Endemic |
| Black-faced Grassquit | Melanospiza bicolor | |
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