This checklist includes all bird species found in Saint Kitts and Nevis , 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 2021. 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: Saint Kitts and Nevis [map]
Other names: Federation of Saint Kitts and Nevis
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White-faced Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna viduata | Rare/Accidental |
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 | Rare/Accidental |
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 | Rare/Accidental |
Canvasback | Aythya valisineria | Rare/Accidental |
Redhead | Aythya americana | Rare/Accidental |
Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | Rare/Accidental |
Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | Rare/Accidental |
Hooded Merganser | Lophodytes cucullatus | Rare/Accidental |
Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | Rare/Accidental |
Masked Duck | Nomonyx dominicus | Rare/Accidental |
Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | Rare/Accidental |
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Helmeted Guineafowl | Numida meleagris | Rare/Accidental |
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Northern Bobwhite | Colinus virginianus | Extirpated Near-threatened |
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Red Junglefowl | Gallus gallus | Introduced species |
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American Flamingo | Phoenicopterus ruber | Rare/Accidental |
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Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | 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 | |
Ruddy Quail-Dove | Geotrygon montana | Rare/Accidental |
Bridled Quail-Dove | Geotrygon mystacea | |
White-winged Dove | Zenaida asiatica | Rare/Accidental |
Zenaida Dove | Zenaida aurita | |
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Smooth-billed Ani | Crotophaga ani | Rare/Accidental |
Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | |
Mangrove Cuckoo | Coccyzus minor | |
Black-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus erythropthalmus | Rare/Accidental |
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Common Nighthawk | Chordeiles minor | |
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 |
White-collared Swift | Streptoprocne zonaris | Rare/Accidental |
Lesser Antillean Swift | Chaetura martinica | Rare/Accidental |
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Purple-throated Carib | Eulampis jugularis | |
Green-throated Carib | Eulampis holosericeus | |
Antillean Crested Hummingbird | Orthorhyncus cristatus | |
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Clapper Rail | Rallus crepitans | Rare/Accidental |
Sora | Porzana carolina | 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 | |
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 | Rare/Accidental |
American Golden-Plover | Pluvialis dominica | Rare/Accidental |
Pacific Golden-Plover | Pluvialis fulva | Rare/Accidental |
Collared Plover | Charadrius collaris | Rare/Accidental |
Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus | Near-threatened |
Wilson's Plover | Charadrius wilsonia | |
Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | |
Piping Plover | Charadrius melodus | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | Rare/Accidental |
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Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | Rare/Accidental |
Black-tailed Godwit | Limosa limosa | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Hudsonian Godwit | Limosa haemastica | 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 |
Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Rare/Accidental |
Baird's Sandpiper | Calidris bairdii | 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 | Rare/Accidental |
Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | Rare/Accidental |
Long-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | Rare/Accidental |
Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | Rare/Accidental |
Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | |
Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | Rare/Accidental |
Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | Rare/Accidental |
Willet | Tringa semipalmata | Rare/Accidental |
Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | Rare/Accidental |
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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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Bonaparte's Gull | Chroicocephalus philadelphia | Rare/Accidental |
Black-headed Gull | Chroicocephalus ridibundus | Rare/Accidental |
Laughing Gull | Leucophaeus atricilla | |
Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | Rare/Accidental |
Herring Gull | Larus argentatus | Rare/Accidental |
Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | Rare/Accidental |
Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | Rare/Accidental |
Brown Noddy | Anous stolidus | Rare/Accidental |
Sooty Tern | Onychoprion fuscatus | Rare/Accidental |
Bridled Tern | Onychoprion anaethetus | Rare/Accidental |
Least Tern | Sternula antillarum | |
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 |
Arctic Tern | Sterna paradisaea | Rare/Accidental |
Forster's Tern | Sterna forsteri | Rare/Accidental |
Royal Tern | Thalasseus maximus | |
Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | Rare/Accidental |
Black Skimmer | Rynchops niger | 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 | Rare/Accidental |
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Leach's Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates leucorhous | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates castro | Rare/Accidental |
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Trindade Petrel | Pterodroma arminjoniana | Rare/Accidental Vulnerable |
Herald Petrel | Pterodroma heraldica | Rare/Accidental |
Black-capped Petrel | Pterodroma hasitata | Rare/Accidental |
Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | Rare/Accidental |
Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | Rare/Accidental |
Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | Rare/Accidental |
Audubon's Shearwater | Puffinus lherminieri | 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 | |
Neotropic Cormorant | Nannopterum brasilianum | Rare/Accidental |
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Brown Pelican | Pelecanus occidentalis | |
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American Bittern | Botaurus lentiginosus | Rare/Accidental |
Least Bittern | Ixobrychus exilis | Rare/Accidental |
Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | |
Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
Great Egret | Ardea alba | Rare/Accidental |
Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | Rare/Accidental |
Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | |
Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | |
Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
Reddish Egret | Egretta rufescens | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
Green Heron | Butorides virescens | |
Black-crowned Night-Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Nyctanassa violacea | |
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Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
Roseate Spoonbill | Platalea ajaja | Rare/Accidental |
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Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | Rare/Accidental |
Sharp-shinned Hawk | Accipiter striatus | Rare/Accidental |
Common Black Hawk | Buteogallus anthracinus | Rare/Accidental |
Broad-winged Hawk | Buteo platypterus | Rare/Accidental |
Red-tailed Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis | |
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Barn Owl | Tyto alba | Rare/Accidental |
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Burrowing Owl | Athene cunicularia | Extirpated |
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Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | Rare/Accidental |
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Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Sphyrapicus varius | Rare/Accidental |
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American Kestrel | Falco sparverius | |
Merlin | Falco columbarius | Rare/Accidental |
Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
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Caribbean Elaenia | Elaenia martinica | |
Lesser Antillean Pewee | Contopus latirostris | Rare/Accidental |
Stolid Flycatcher | Myiarchus stolidus | Rare/Accidental |
Lesser Antillean Flycatcher | Myiarchus oberi | |
Eastern Kingbird | Tyrannus tyrannus | Rare/Accidental |
Gray Kingbird | Tyrannus dominicensis | |
Fork-tailed Flycatcher | Tyrannus savana | Rare/Accidental |
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Yellow-throated Vireo | Vireo flavifrons | Rare/Accidental |
Black-whiskered Vireo | Vireo altiloquus | |
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Purple Martin | Progne subis | Rare/Accidental |
Caribbean Martin | Progne dominicensis | |
Tree Swallow | Tachycineta bicolor | Rare/Accidental |
Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | Rare/Accidental |
Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | Rare/Accidental |
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Scaly-breasted Thrasher | Allenia fusca | |
Pearly-eyed Thrasher | Margarops fuscatus | |
Brown Trembler | Cinclocerthia ruficauda | |
Brown Thrasher | Toxostoma rufum | Rare/Accidental |
Tropical Mockingbird | Mimus gilvus | Rare/Accidental |
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Veery | Catharus fuscescens | Rare/Accidental |
Swainson's Thrush | Catharus ustulatus | Rare/Accidental |
Spectacled Thrush | Turdus nudigenis | Rare/Accidental |
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Scaly-breasted Munia | Lonchura punctulata | Introduced species |
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House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Rare/Accidental |
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Antillean Euphonia | Chlorophonia musica | |
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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 | Extirpated |
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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 |
Golden-winged Warbler | Vermivora chrysoptera | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia | |
Prothonotary Warbler | Protonotaria citrea | Rare/Accidental |
Kentucky Warbler | Geothlypis formosa | Rare/Accidental |
Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas | Rare/Accidental |
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 |
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 | Rare/Accidental |
Pine Warbler | Setophaga pinus | Rare/Accidental |
Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | Rare/Accidental |
Yellow-throated Warbler | Setophaga dominica | Rare/Accidental |
Prairie Warbler | Setophaga discolor | Rare/Accidental |
Adelaide's Warbler | Setophaga adelaidae | Rare/Accidental |
Black-throated Green Warbler | Setophaga virens | 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 |
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Grassland Yellow-Finch | Sicalis luteola | Rare/Accidental |
Yellow-bellied Seedeater | Sporophila nigricollis | Rare/Accidental |
Bananaquit | Coereba flaveola | |
St. Kitts Bullfinch | Melopyrrha grandis | Endemic |
Greater Antillean Bullfinch | Melopyrrha violacea | Rare/Accidental |
Lesser Antillean Bullfinch | Loxigilla noctis | |
Black-faced Grassquit | Melanospiza bicolor | |
Lesser Antillean Saltator | Saltator albicollis | Rare/Accidental |
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