Species Index

Barbados Taxonomic List and Photographed Bird Species of Barbados

Welcome to the Index to Birds of Barbados — This is a curated guide to the avian diversity of our island. This page serves as a quick reference to species accounts, photo galleries, and trip reports featured on 100 Barbados Birds. All photographs by Julian Moore How to Use This Index Browse by family groupings for easier navigation. Click on species names to view detailed notes, photos, or blog posts. Endemic, migratory, and notable rarities are highlighted for emphasis.

DUCKS Black-belliedWhistling Duck      West Indian Whistling Duck      Fulvous Whistling Duck Common Shelduck Eurasian Wigeon          American Wigeon Blue-wingedTeal Northern Shoveler  Northern Pintail            Green-winged Teal Ring-necked Duck Tufted Duck Lesser Scaup Hooded Merganser  Masked Duck    Ruddy Duck Flamingo American Flamingo GREBES Pied-billedGrebe DOVES/PIGEONS Rock Pigeon White-crowned Pigeon Scaly-naped Pigeon Eurasian Collared Dove Zenaida Dove Eared Dove Common Ground-Dove TROPICBIRDS Red-billed Tropicbird White-tailed Tropicbird SWIFTS Blacks Swift Alpine Swift House Swift HUMMINGBIRDS Green-throated Carib Antillean Crested CUCKOOS Yellow-billed Cuckoo Common Cuckoo NIGHTHAWKS Common Nighthawk RAILS/COOTS Sora Common Gallinule Purple Gallinule American Coot SHEARWATERS Great Shearwater PELICANS Brown Pelican HERONS/EGRETS Great Blue Heron Grey Heron Purple Heron Great Egret Little Egret Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Tricolor Heron Cattle Egret Green Heron Striated Heron Black-crowned Night Heron Yellow-crowned Night Heron IBIS Glossy Ibis SPOONBILL Eurasian Spoonbill FRIGATEBIRD Magnificent Frigatebird BOOBIES Brown Booby Red-footed Booby ANHINGA Anhinga STILTS/PLOVERS Black-necked Stilt Black-bellied Plover Pacific Golden Plover American Golden Plover Semipalmated Plover Killdeer Collared Plover Southern Lapwing

SANDPIPERS Upland Sandpiper Whimbrel Hudsonian Godwit Ruddy Turnstone Red Knot Ruff Stilt Sandpiper Sanderling Least Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson’s Snipe Wilson’s Phalarop Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper Willet Lesser Yellowleg Greater yellowleg Common Greenshank Wood sandpiper GULLS Black-headed Gull Laughing Gull Franklin’s Gull Herring Gull Lesser Black-backed Gull TERNS Bridle Tern Least Tern White-winged Tern Black Tern Gull-billed Tern Roseate Tern Royal Tern Common Tern KINGFISHER Belted Kingfisher Ringed Kingfisher RAPTORS Osprey Western Marsh Harrier Merlin Bat Falcon Peregrine Falcon Black Kite PARROTS/PARAKEETS Yellow-crowned Parrot Orange-winged Parrot Ring-necked parakeet TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Caribbean Elaenia Great Kiskadee Grey Kingbird VIREO Black-whiskered Vireo WARBLERS Northern Waterthrush Yellow Warbler Prothonotary Warbler American Redstart Blackburnian Warbler Blackpoll Warbler BLACKBIRDS etc. Bobolink Pearly-eyed Thrasher Shiny Cowbird Carib Grackle Scarlet Tanager BANANAQUIT/SEEDEATER Bananaquit Grassland Yellowfinch Blackface Grassquit Barbados Bullfinch Swallows/Martins Barn Swallow Cliff Swallow Bank Swallow/Sand Martin Caribbean Martin Cuban Martin HYBRIDS etc.  BBWD/West Indian WD Barbados/ LA Bullfinch Little / Snowy Egret