Birds of Nevis Checklist

SHEARWATERS & PETRELS
Herald Petrel*
Black-capped Petrel*
Cory’s Shearwater*
Greater Shearwater*
Sooty Shearwater*
Manx Shearwater*
Audubon’s Shearwater*

STORM-PETRELS
Wilson’s Storm-Petrel*
Leach’s Storm-Petrel*
Band-rumped Storm-Petrel*

TROPICBIRDS
White-tailed Tropicbird*
Red-billed Tropicbird*

BOOBIES & GANNETS
Masked Booby*
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby*

PELICANS
Brown Pelican

CORMORANTS
Neotropic Cormorant*
Double-crested Cormorant*

DARTERS
Anhinga*

FRIGATEBIRDS
Magnificent Frigatebird

HERONS, BITTERNS, & ALLIES
American Bittern*
Least Bittern*
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Little Egret*
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Tricolored Heron*
Reddish Egret*
Cattle Egret
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron*
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron

IBISES & SPOONBILLS
Glossy Ibis*
Roseate Spoonbill*

FLAMINGOS
Greater Flamingo*

DUCKS, GEESE, & SWANS
White-faced Whistling-Duck*
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck*
West Indian Whistling-Duck*
Fulvous Whistling-Duck*
Wood Duck*
Gadwall*
American Wigeon*
Mallard*
Blue-winged Teal
Cinnamon Teal*
Northern Shoveler*
White-cheeked Pintail*
Northern Pintail*
Green-winged Teal*
Canvasback*
Redhead*
Ring-necked Duck*
Lesser Scaup*
Hooded Merganser*
Red-breasted Merganser*
Masked Duck*
Ruddy Duck*

HAWKS, KITES, EAGLES, & ALLIES
Osprey
Northern Harrier*
Sharp-shinned Hawk*
Common Black-Hawk*
Broad-winged Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk

CARACARAS & FALCONS
American Kestrel
Merlin*
Peregrine Falcon*

PARTRIDGES, GROUSE, TURKEYS, & OLD WORLD QUAIL
Helmeted Guineafowl

LAPWINGS & PLOVERS
Black-bellied Plover
American Golden-Plover*
Collared Plover*
Snowy Plover
Wilson’s Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover*
Killdeer*

OYSTERCATCHERS
American Oystercatcher*

STILTS & AVOCETS
Black-necked Stilt*
American Avocet*

SANDPIPERS, PHALAROPES, & ALLIES
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Whimbrel
Marbled Godwit*
Hudsonian Godwit*
Ruddy Turnstone
Red Knot
Sanderling
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
White-rumped Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin*
Stilt Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper*
Ruff*
Short-billed Dowitcher*
Long-billed Dowitcher*
Common Snipe*

SKUAS, GULLS, TERNS, & SKIMMERS
Pomarine Jaeger*
Parasitic Jaeger*
Long-tailed Jaeger*
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull*
Herring Gull*
Great Black-backed Gull *
Gull-billed Tern*
Caspian Tern*
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern*
Roseate Tern
Common Tern*
Forster’s Tern*
Least Tern
Bridled Tern
Sooty Tern
Brown Noddy
Black Skimmer*

PIGEONS & DOVES
Rock Dove
Scaly-naped Pigeon
White-crowned Pigeon*
Eurasian Collared Dove*
White-winged Dove
Zenaida Dove
Common Ground-Dove
Bridled Quail-Dove
Ruddy Quail-Dove*

CUCKOOS, ROADRUNNERS, & ANIS
Black-billed Cuckoo*
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Mangrove Cuckoo
Smooth-billed Ani*

BARN OWLS
Barn Owl*

TYPICAL OWLS
Burrowing Owl*

GOATSUCKERS
Antillean Nighthawk*
Chuck-will’s-widow*

SWIFTS
Black Swift*
White-collared Swift*
Lesser Antillian Swift*

KINGFISHERS
Ringed Kingfisher*
Belted Kingfisher

TYRANT FLYCATCHERS
Caribbean Elaenia
Lesser Antillean Pewee*
Lesser Antillean Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird*
Gray Kingbird
Fork-tailed Flycatcher*

VIREOS
Black-whiskered Vireo

SWALLOWS
Caribbean Martin
Bank Swallow*
Cliff Swallow*
Barn Swallow*

THRUSHES
Veery*

MOCKINGBIRDS & THRASHERS
Tropical Mockingbird*
Scaly-breasted Thrasher
Pearly-eyed Thrasher
Brown Trembler

WOOD-WARBLERS
Northern Parula*
Yellow Warbler
Cape May Warbler*
Black-throated Blue Warbler*
Yellow-rumped Warbler*
Black-throated Green Warbler*
Yellow-throated Warbler*
Adelaide’s Warbler*
Prairie Warbler*
Blackpoll Warbler*
Black-and-white Warbler*
American Redstart*
Prothonotary Warbler*
Worm-eating Warbler*
Ovenbird*
Northern Waterthrush*
Louisiana Waterthrush*
Kentucky Warbler*
Common Yellowthroat*
Hooded Warbler*

BANANAQUITS
Bananaquit

TANAGERS
Scarlet Tanager*
Antillean Euphonia*

EMBERIZIDS
Black-faced Grassquit
Puerto Rican Bullfinch*
Greater Antillean Bullfinch*
Lesser Antillean Bullfinch
Grassland Yellow-Finch*

CARDINALS, SALTATORS, & ALLIES
Lesser Antillean Saltator*
Rose-breasted Grosbeak*

BLACKBIRDS
Bobolink*
Carib Grackle*
Shiny Cowbird
Baltimore Oriole*

OLD WORLD SPARROWS
House Sparrow

OTHERS
Red Junglefowl – domesticate
Common Peafowl – domesticate

* Birds of special interest or may have yet been documented for the Island of Nevis.