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Martinique
This checklist includes all bird species found in Martinique , 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: Martinique [map]
Number of species: 240
Number of endemics: 2
Number of breeding endemics: 1
Number of globally threatened species: 5
Number of extinct species: 1
Number of introduced species: 17
Date last reviewed: 2021-03-21
Last modified: 2022-10-22
See also: https://inpn.mnhn.fr/collTerr/outreMer/972/MTQ/tab/especes
Number of endemics: 2
Number of breeding endemics: 1
Number of globally threatened species: 5
Number of extinct species: 1
Number of introduced species: 17
Date last reviewed: 2021-03-21
Last modified: 2022-10-22
See also: https://inpn.mnhn.fr/collTerr/outreMer/972/MTQ/tab/especes
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| Black-bellied Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna autumnalis | Rare/Accidental |
| West Indian Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna arborea | Rare/Accidental |
| Fulvous Whistling-Duck | Dendrocygna bicolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Shelduck | Tadorna tadorna | Rare/Accidental |
| Muscovy Duck | Cairina moschata | Introduced species |
| Garganey | Spatula querquedula | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-winged Teal | Spatula discors | |
| Cinnamon Teal | Spatula cyanoptera | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Shoveler | Spatula clypeata | |
| Gadwall | Mareca strepera | |
| Eurasian Wigeon | Mareca penelope | Rare/Accidental |
| American Wigeon | Mareca americana | |
| Mallard | Anas platyrhynchos | |
| White-cheeked Pintail | Anas bahamensis | |
| Northern Pintail | Anas acuta | |
| Green-winged Teal | Anas crecca | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | |
| Hooded Merganser | Lophodytes cucullatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Masked Duck | Nomonyx dominicus | |
| Ruddy Duck | Oxyura jamaicensis | Rare/Accidental |
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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 |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | Introduced species |
| Common Ground Dove | Columbina passerina | |
| Ruddy Quail-Dove | Geotrygon montana | Rare/Accidental |
| Bridled Quail-Dove | Geotrygon mystacea | Rare/Accidental |
| White-winged Dove | Zenaida asiatica | Rare/Accidental |
| Zenaida Dove | Zenaida aurita | |
| Eared Dove | Zenaida auriculata | |
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| Smooth-billed Ani | Crotophaga ani | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Mangrove Cuckoo | Coccyzus minor | |
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| Common Nighthawk | Chordeiles minor | Rare/Accidental |
| Antillean Nighthawk | Chordeiles gundlachii | Rare/Accidental |
| White-tailed Nightjar | Hydropsalis cayennensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black Swift | Cypseloides niger | |
| White-collared Swift | Streptoprocne zonaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Antillean Swift | Chaetura martinica | |
| Short-tailed Swift | Chaetura brachyura | Rare/Accidental |
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| Purple-throated Carib | Eulampis jugularis | Endemic (country/region) |
| Green-throated Carib | Eulampis holosericeus | Endemic (country/region) |
| Blue-headed Hummingbird | Riccordia bicolor | Endemic (country/region) |
| Antillean Crested Hummingbird | Orthorhyncus cristatus | |
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| Clapper Rail | Rallus crepitans | Rare/Accidental |
| Sora | Porzana carolina | |
| Common Gallinule | Gallinula galeata | |
| American Coot | Fulica americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinica | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-necked Stilt | Himantopus mexicanus | |
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| American Oystercatcher | Haematopus palliatus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| American Golden-Plover | Pluvialis dominica | |
| Northern Lapwing | Vanellus vanellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Collared Plover | Charadrius collaris | Rare/Accidental |
| Snowy Plover | Charadrius nivosus | Rare/Accidental |
| Wilson's Plover | Charadrius wilsonia | Rare/Accidental |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | |
| Piping Plover | Charadrius melodus | Rare/Accidental |
| Little Ringed Plover | Charadrius dubius | Rare/Accidental |
| Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | |
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| Upland Sandpiper | Bartramia longicauda | Rare/Accidental |
| Whimbrel | Numenius phaeopus | |
| Eskimo Curlew | Numenius borealis | Rare/Accidental |
| Long-billed Curlew | Numenius americanus | Rare/Accidental |
| Hudsonian Godwit | Limosa haemastica | Rare/Accidental |
| Marbled Godwit | Limosa fedoa | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Ruff | Calidris pugnax | Rare/Accidental |
| Stilt Sandpiper | Calidris himantopus | |
| Curlew Sandpiper | Calidris ferruginea | Rare/Accidental |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Rare/Accidental |
| Baird's Sandpiper | Calidris bairdii | Rare/Accidental |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | |
| Buff-breasted Sandpiper | Calidris subruficollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | |
| Western Sandpiper | Calidris mauri | |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | |
| Long-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus scolopaceus | Rare/Accidental |
| Wilson's Snipe | Gallinago delicata | |
| Wilson's Phalarope | Phalaropus tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | |
| Willet | Tringa semipalmata | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | |
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| Great Skua | Stercorarius skua | Rare/Accidental |
| South Polar Skua | Stercorarius maccormicki | Rare/Accidental |
| 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 | |
| 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 | Rare/Accidental |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | Rare/Accidental |
| Royal Tern | Thalasseus maximus | |
| Sandwich Tern | Thalasseus sandvicensis | Rare/Accidental |
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| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | |
| Red-billed Tropicbird | Phaethon aethereus | |
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| Black-browed Albatross | Thalassarche melanophris | 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 |
| Band-rumped Storm-Petrel | Hydrobates castro | Rare/Accidental |
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| Black-capped Petrel | Pterodroma hasitata | Extirpated |
| Cory's Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Shearwater | Ardenna gravis | Rare/Accidental |
| Sooty Shearwater | Ardenna grisea | Rare/Accidental |
| Manx Shearwater | Puffinus puffinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Audubon's Shearwater | Puffinus lherminieri | |
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| White Stork | Ciconia ciconia | 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 |
| Northern Gannet | Morus bassanus | 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 | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Heron | Ardea cinerea | Rare/Accidental |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Little Egret | Egretta garzetta | Rare/Accidental |
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | |
| Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | |
| Tricolored Heron | Egretta tricolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Green Heron | Butorides virescens | |
| Striated Heron | Butorides striata | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-crowned Night-Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | Nyctanassa violacea | |
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| Scarlet Ibis | Eudocimus ruber | Rare/Accidental |
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Eurasian Spoonbill | Platalea leucorodia | Rare/Accidental |
| Roseate Spoonbill | Platalea ajaja | Rare/Accidental |
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| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Swallow-tailed Kite | Elanoides forficatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Harrier | Circus hudsonius | Rare/Accidental |
| Broad-winged Hawk | Buteo platypterus | |
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| Burrowing Owl | Athene cunicularia | Extirpated |
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| Ringed Kingfisher | Megaceryle torquata | Rare/Accidental |
| Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | |
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| Eurasian Kestrel | Falco tinnunculus | Rare/Accidental |
| 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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| Martinique Parrot | Amazona martinicana | |
| Orange-winged Parrot | Amazona amazonica | Introduced species |
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| Yellow-bellied Elaenia | Elaenia flavogaster | Rare/Accidental |
| Caribbean Elaenia | Elaenia martinica | |
| Lesser Antillean Pewee | Contopus latirostris | |
| Stolid Flycatcher | Myiarchus stolidus | Rare/Accidental |
| Lesser Antillean Flycatcher | Myiarchus oberi | |
| Gray Kingbird | Tyrannus dominicensis | |
| Fork-tailed Flycatcher | Tyrannus savana | Rare/Accidental |
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| Yellow-throated Vireo | Vireo flavifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-eyed Vireo | Vireo olivaceus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-whiskered Vireo | Vireo altiloquus | |
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| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Stelgidopteryx serripennis | Rare/Accidental |
| Caribbean Martin | Progne dominicensis | |
| White-winged Swallow | Tachycineta albiventer | Rare/Accidental |
| Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Cliff Swallow | Petrochelidon pyrrhonota | Rare/Accidental |
| Cave Swallow | Petrochelidon fulva | Rare/Accidental |
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| House Wren | Troglodytes aedon | Extirpated |
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| White-breasted Thrasher | Ramphocinclus brachyurus | |
| Scaly-breasted Thrasher | Allenia fusca | |
| Pearly-eyed Thrasher | Margarops fuscatus | |
| Brown Trembler | Cinclocerthia ruficauda | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Trembler | Cinclocerthia gutturalis | Endemic (country/region) |
| Tropical Mockingbird | Mimus gilvus | |
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| Rufous-throated Solitaire | Myadestes genibarbis | |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | Catharus minimus | Rare/Accidental |
| Spectacled Thrush | Turdus nudigenis | |
| Red-legged Thrush | Turdus plumbeus | Rare/Accidental |
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| Village Weaver | Ploceus cucullatus | Introduced species |
| Northern Red Bishop | Euplectes franciscanus | Introduced species |
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| Bronze Mannikin | Spermestes cucullata | Rare/Accidental |
| Scaly-breasted Munia | Lonchura punctulata | Rare/Accidental |
| Tricolored Munia | Lonchura malacca | Introduced species |
| Chestnut Munia | Lonchura atricapilla | Introduced species |
| White-headed Munia | Lonchura maja | Introduced species |
| Orange-cheeked Waxbill | Estrilda melpoda | Introduced species |
| Common Waxbill | Estrilda astrild | Introduced species |
| Black-rumped Waxbill | Estrilda troglodytes | Introduced species |
| Red Avadavat | Amandava amandava | Introduced species |
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| Antillean Euphonia | Chlorophonia musica | Rare/Accidental |
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| Bobolink | Dolichonyx oryzivorus | Rare/Accidental |
| Martinique Oriole | Icterus bonana | Endemic |
| 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 |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | Parkesia motacilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Waterthrush | Parkesia noveboracensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia | Rare/Accidental |
| Prothonotary Warbler | Protonotaria citrea | Rare/Accidental |
| Kentucky Warbler | Geothlypis formosa | Rare/Accidental |
| Hooded Warbler | Setophaga citrina | Rare/Accidental |
| American Redstart | Setophaga ruticilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Cape May Warbler | Setophaga tigrina | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Parula | Setophaga americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow Warbler | Setophaga petechia | |
| Blackpoll Warbler | Setophaga striata | Rare/Accidental |
| Pine Warbler | Setophaga pinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Setophaga coronata | Rare/Accidental |
| Prairie Warbler | Setophaga discolor | Rare/Accidental |
| St. Lucia Warbler | Setophaga delicata | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | Setophaga virens | Rare/Accidental |
| Canada Warbler | Cardellina canadensis | 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 |
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| Grassland Yellow-Finch | Sicalis luteola | Introduced species |
| Chestnut-bellied Seed-Finch | Sporophila angolensis | Introduced species |
| Bananaquit | Coereba flaveola | |
| Lesser Antillean Bullfinch | Loxigilla noctis | |
| Black-faced Grassquit | Melanospiza bicolor | |
| Lesser Antillean Saltator | Saltator albicollis | |
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