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Breeding Birds

Forty six species of birds have been confirmed as breeding in the Cayman Islands since 1975.

Five species are summer breeding visitors. The remainder are resident in the Cayman Islands all year round.

SUMMER BREEDING VISITORS:
White-tailed Tropicbird (Boatswain Bird) Phaethon lepturus
Least Tern (Egg Bird, Tern) Sterna antillarum
Antillean Nighthawk (Rickery-Dick) Chordeiles gundlachii
Gray Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis
Black-whiskered Vireo Vireo altiloquus

RESIDENT BREEDING WATERBIRDS:
Pied-billed Grebe (Diver, Diving Dapper) Podilymbus podiceps
Brown Booby (Booby) Sula leucogaster
Red-footed Booby (Booby) Sula sula
Magnificent Frigatebird (Man O-War) Fregata magnificens
Least Bittern Ixobrychus exilis
Snowy Egret (White Gauldin) Egretta thula
Little Blue Heron (Blue, White Gauldin) Egretta caerulea
Tricolored Heron (Grey Gauldin) Egretta tricolour
Cattle Egret (Cattle Gauldin) Bubulcus ibis
Green Heron (Mary Perk) Butorides virescens
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Crabcatcher) Nyctanassa violacea
West-Indian Whistling-Duck (Whistler) Dendrocygna arborea
Purple Gallinule Porphyrula martinica
Common Moorhen (Red Seal Coot) Gallinula chloropus
Black-necked Stilt (Tell-tale, Soldier) Himantopus mexicanus
Willet (Laughing Jack) Catoptrophorus semipalmatus

RESIDENT BREEDING LANDBIRDS:
White-crowned Pigeon (Bald Pate) Patagioenas leucocephala
White-winged Dove (White Wing) Zenaida asiatica
Zenaida Dove (Pea Dove, Big Dove) Zenaida aurita
Common Ground-Dove (Ground Dove) Columbina passerine
Caribbean Dove (White-Belly) Leptotila jamaicansis
Cayman (Cuban) Parrot (Parrot, Brac Parrot) Amazona leucocephala
Mangrove Cuckoo (Rain Bird) Coccyzus minor
Smooth-billed Ani (Black Arnold, Old Arnold) Crotophaga ani
Barn Owl (Screech Owl, Owl) Tyto alba
Antillean Nighthawk (Rickery-Dick) Chordeiles gundlachii
West Indian Woodpecker (Red-Head) Melanerpes superciliaris
Northern Flicker (Black Heart) Colaptes auratus
Caribbean Elaenia (Judas, Top-Knot Judas) Elaenia martinica
La Sagra’s Flycatcher (Tom Fool) Myiarchus sagrae
Gray Kingbird Tyrannus dominicensis
Loggerhead Kingbird (Tom Fighter) Tyrannus caudifasciatus
Red-legged Thrush (Old Truss, Thrush) Turdus plumbeus
Northern Mockingbird (Nightingale) Mimus polyglottos
Thick-billed Vireo (Shear-bark) Vireo crassirostris
Black-whiskered Vireo Vireo altiloquus
Yucatan Vireo (Sweet Bridget) Vireo magister
Yellow Warbler (Yellow Bird) Dendroica petechia
Vitelline Warbler (Chip Chip) Dendroica vitellina
Bananaquit (Banana Bird) Coereba flaveola
Western Spindalis (Bastard Cock, Sparrow, previously Stripe-headed Tanager) Spindalis zena
Cuban Bullfinch (Black Sparrow) Melopyrrha nigra
Yellow-faced Grassquit (Grass bird) Tiaris olivacea
Greater Antillean Grackle (Ching-ching, Blacksmith) Quiscalus niger

REFERENCE:
For more information on the birds of the Cayman Islands, see
Bradley, P. E. 1995. Birds of the Cayman Islands
Bradley, P. E. 2000. The Birds of the Cayman Islands
Raffaele et al. 2003. A Guide to the Birds of the West Indies.