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Saint Kitts
This checklist includes all bird species found in Saint Kitts , 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 [map]
Number of endemics: 1
Number of globally threatened species: 2
Number of introduced species: 4
Date last reviewed: 2013-01-09
Last modified: 2022-04-14
See also: http://www.birdsofstkittsnevis.com/index.php/list-of-birds.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 |
| Wood Duck | Aix sponsa | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | Rare/Accidental |
| American Wigeon | Mareca americana | 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 | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | Rare/Accidental |
| Hooded Merganser | Lophodytes cucullatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | 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 | |
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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 |
| 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 | |
| Caspian Tern | Hydroprogne caspia | 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 |
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| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | 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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| Black-capped Petrel | Pterodroma hasitata | Rare/Accidental |
| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | 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 | |
| Brown Booby | Sula leucogaster | |
| Red-footed Booby | Sula sula | Rare/Accidental |
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| Double-crested Cormorant | Nannopterum auritum | |
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| Brown Pelican | Pelecanus occidentalis | |
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| 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 |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
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| Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | |
| Broad-winged Hawk | Buteo platypterus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-tailed Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis | |
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| Burrowing Owl | Athene cunicularia | Extirpated |
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| Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | Rare/Accidental |
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| American Kestrel | Falco sparverius | |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | Rare/Accidental |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | Rare/Accidental |
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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 | |
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| Yellow-throated Vireo | Vireo flavifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-whiskered Vireo | Vireo altiloquus | |
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| 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 |
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| Veery | Catharus fuscescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Swainson's Thrush | Catharus ustulatus | 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 |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | Parkesia motacilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Waterthrush | Parkesia noveboracensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia | |
| Prothonotary Warbler | Protonotaria citrea | Rare/Accidental |
| Kentucky Warbler | Geothlypis formosa | 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 |
| Prairie Warbler | Setophaga discolor | 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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| Yellow-bellied Seedeater | Sporophila nigricollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Bananaquit | Coereba flaveola | |
| St. Kitts Bullfinch | Melopyrrha grandis | Endemic |
| Lesser Antillean Bullfinch | Loxigilla noctis | |
| Black-faced Grassquit | Melanospiza bicolor | |
| Lesser Antillean Saltator | Saltator albicollis | Rare/Accidental |
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