| Country or region: Great Abaco | ||
| Number of species: 196 | ||
| Number of globally threatened species: 4 | ||
| Number of introduced species: 5 | ||
| Date last reviewed: 2011-10-23 | ||
| Odontophoridae | ||
| Northern Bobwhite | Colinus virginianus | Introduced species Near-threatened |
| Anatidae | ||
| Greater White-fronted Goose | Anser albifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Canada Goose | Branta canadensis | Rare/Accidental |
| American Wigeon | Anas americana | Rare/Accidental |
| Blue-winged Teal | Anas discors | |
| Northern Shoveler | Anas clypeata | Rare/Accidental |
| White-cheeked Pintail | Anas bahamensis | |
| Common Teal | Anas crecca | Rare/Accidental |
| Ring-necked Duck | Aythya collaris | |
| Lesser Scaup | Aythya affinis | |
| Red-breasted Merganser | Mergus serrator | Rare/Accidental |
| Procellariidae | ||
| Black-capped Petrel | Pterodroma hasitata | Rare/Accidental |
| Cory’s Shearwater | Calonectris diomedea | Rare/Accidental |
| Audubon’s Shearwater | Puffinus lherminieri | |
| Great Shearwater | Puffinus gravis | Rare/Accidental |
| Hydrobatidae | ||
| Wilson’s Storm Petrel | Oceanites oceanicus | Rare/Accidental |
| Band-rumped Storm Petrel | Oceanodroma castro | Rare/Accidental |
| Podicipedidae | ||
| Least Grebe | Tachybaptus dominicus | |
| Pied-billed Grebe | Podilymbus podiceps | |
| Phoenicopteridae | ||
| Greater Flamingo | Phoenicopterus ruber | |
| Threskiornithidae | ||
| White Ibis | Eudocimus albus | |
| Glossy Ibis | Plegadis falcinellus | Rare/Accidental |
| Ardeidae | ||
| American Bittern | Botaurus lentiginosus | Rare/Accidental |
| Least Bittern | Ixobrychus exilis | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-crowned Night Heron | Nycticorax nycticorax | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-crowned Night Heron | Nyctanassa violacea | |
| Green Heron | Butorides virescens | |
| Cattle Egret | Bubulcus ibis | |
| Great Blue Heron | Ardea herodias | |
| Great Egret | Ardea alba | |
| Reddish Egret | Egretta rufescens | |
| Tricolored or Louisiana Heron | Egretta tricolor | |
| Little Blue Heron | Egretta caerulea | |
| Snowy Egret | Egretta thula | |
| Phaethontidae | ||
| White-tailed Tropicbird | Phaethon lepturus | |
| Fregatidae | ||
| Magnificent Frigatebird | Fregata magnificens | |
| Pelecanidae | ||
| Brown Pelican | Pelecanus occidentalis | |
| Phalacrocoracidae | ||
| Neotropical Cormorant | Phalacrocorax brasilianus | |
| Double-crested Cormorant | Phalacrocorax auritus | |
| Cathartidae | ||
| Turkey-Vulture | Cathartes aura | |
| Falconidae | ||
| American Kestrel | Falco sparverius | |
| Merlin | Falco columbarius | |
| Peregrine Falcon | Falco peregrinus | |
| Accipitridae | ||
| Osprey | Pandion haliaetus | |
| Swallow-tailed Kite | Elanoides forficatus | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Harrier/Hen Harrier | Circus cyaneus | |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | Accipiter striatus | |
| Red-tailed Hawk | Buteo jamaicensis | |
| Rallidae | ||
| Clapper Rail | Rallus longirostris | |
| Virginia Rail | Rallus limicola | Rare/Accidental |
| Sora Rail | Porzana carolina | |
| Purple Gallinule | Porphyrio martinica | |
| Common Moorhen | Gallinula chloropus | |
| American Coot | Fulica americana | |
| Aramidae | ||
| Limpkin | Aramus guarauna | |
| Haematopodidae | ||
| American Oystercatcher | Haematopus palliatus | |
| Recurvirostridae | ||
| Black-winged Stilt | Himantopus himantopus | |
| Charadriidae | ||
| Grey Plover/Black-bellied Plover | Pluvialis squatarola | |
| Semipalmated Plover | Charadrius semipalmatus | |
| Wilson’s Plover | Charadrius wilsonia | |
| Killdeer | Charadrius vociferus | |
| Piping Plover | Charadrius melodus | Near-threatened |
| Scolopacidae | ||
| Common Snipe | Gallinago gallinago | |
| Short-billed Dowitcher | Limnodromus griseus | |
| Greater Yellowlegs | Tringa melanoleuca | |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | Tringa flavipes | |
| Solitary Sandpiper | Tringa solitaria | Rare/Accidental |
| Spotted Sandpiper | Actitis macularius | |
| Willet | Catoptrophorus semipalmatus | |
| Ruddy Turnstone | Arenaria interpres | |
| Red Knot | Calidris canutus | Rare/Accidental |
| Sanderling | Calidris alba | |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | Calidris pusilla | |
| Western Sandpiper | Calidris mauri | Rare/Accidental |
| Least Sandpiper | Calidris minutilla | |
| White-rumped Sandpiper | Calidris fuscicollis | Rare/Accidental |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | Calidris melanotos | Rare/Accidental |
| Dunlin | Calidris alpina | Rare/Accidental |
| Laridae | ||
| Ring-billed Gull | Larus delawarensis | |
| Great Black-backed Gull | Larus marinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Herring Gull | Larus argentatus | |
| Lesser Black-backed Gull | Larus fuscus | Rare/Accidental |
| Bonaparte’s Gull | Larus philadelphia | Rare/Accidental |
| Laughing Gull | Larus atricilla | |
| Caspian Tern | Sterna caspia | Rare/Accidental |
| Sandwich Tern | Sterna sandvicensis | |
| Royal Tern | Sterna maxima | |
| Roseate Tern | Sterna dougallii | |
| Common Tern | Sterna hirundo | Rare/Accidental |
| Forster’s Tern | Sterna forsteri | Rare/Accidental |
| Least Tern | Sterna antillarum | |
| Bridled Tern | Sterna anaethetus | |
| Sooty Tern | Sterna fuscata | |
| Black Skimmer | Rynchops niger | Rare/Accidental |
| Stercorariidae | ||
| Pomarine Skua | Stercorarius pomarinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Columbidae | ||
| Rock Dove | Columba livia | Introduced species |
| White-crowned Pigeon | Columba leucocephala | Near-threatened |
| Eurasian Collared Dove | Streptopelia decaocto | Introduced species |
| Mourning Dove | Zenaida macroura | |
| Zenaida Dove | Zenaida aurita | |
| White-winged Dove | Zenaida asiatica | |
| Common Ground Dove | Columbina passerina | |
| Key West Quail-Dove | Geotrygon chrysia | |
| Psittacidae | ||
| Cuban Parrot | Amazona leucocephala | Near-threatened |
| Cuculidae | ||
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | Coccyzus americanus | |
| Mangrove Cuckoo | Coccyzus minor | |
| Smooth-billed Ani | Crotophaga ani | |
| Tytonidae | ||
| Barn Owl | Tyto alba | |
| Strigidae | ||
| Burrowing Owl | Athene cunicularia | |
| Caprimulgidae | ||
| Common Nighthawk | Chordeiles minor | Rare/Accidental |
| Antillean Nighthawk | Chordeiles gundlachii | |
| Chuck-will’s Widow | Caprimulgus carolinensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Trochilidae | ||
| Cuban Emerald | Chlorostilbon ricordii | |
| Bahama Woodstar | Calliphlox evelynae | Endemic (country/region) |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | Archilochus colubris | Rare/Accidental |
| Alcedinidae | ||
| Belted Kingfisher | Megaceryle alcyon | |
| Picidae | ||
| West Indian Woodpecker | Melanerpes superciliaris | |
| Yellow-bellied Sapsucker | Sphyrapicus varius | |
| Hairy Woodpecker | Picoides villosus | |
| Tyrannidae | ||
| Eastern Phoebe | Sayornis phoebe | Rare/Accidental |
| Cuban Pewee | Contopus caribaeus | |
| Least Flycatcher | Empidonax minimus | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Kingbird | Tyrannus verticalis | Rare/Accidental |
| Eastern Kingbird | Tyrannus tyrannus | Rare/Accidental |
| Gray Kingbird | Tyrannus dominicensis | |
| Loggerhead Kingbird | Tyrannus caudifasciatus | |
| La Sagra’s Flycatcher | Myiarchus sagrae | |
| Vireonidae | ||
| White-eyed Vireo | Vireo griseus | Rare/Accidental |
| Thick-billed Vireo | Vireo crassirostris | |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | Vireo flavifrons | Rare/Accidental |
| Warbling Vireo | Vireo gilvus | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-eyed Vireo | Vireo olivaceus | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-whiskered Vireo | Vireo altiloquus | |
| Hirundinidae | ||
| Collared Sand Martin/Bank Swallow | Riparia riparia | Rare/Accidental |
| Tree Swallow | Tachycineta bicolor | Rare/Accidental |
| Bahama Swallow | Tachycineta cyaneoviridis | Vulnerable |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | Stelgidopteryx serripennis | Rare/Accidental |
| Barn Swallow | Hirundo rustica | |
| Polioptilidae | ||
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | Polioptila caerulea | |
| Mimidae | ||
| Gray Catbird | Dumetella carolinensis | |
| Northern Mockingbird | Mimus polyglottos | |
| Bahama Mockingbird | Mimus gundlachii | |
| Sturnidae | ||
| European Starling | Sturnus vulgaris | Introduced species |
| Turdidae | ||
| Hermit Thrush | Catharus guttatus | Rare/Accidental |
| American Robin | Turdus migratorius | |
| Red-legged Thrush | Turdus plumbeus | |
| Passeridae | ||
| House Sparrow | Passer domesticus | Introduced species |
| Motacillidae | ||
| Buff-bellied Pipit | Anthus rubescens | Rare/Accidental |
| Parulidae | ||
| Blue-winged Warbler | Vermivora pinus | Rare/Accidental |
| Orange-crowned Warbler | Vermivora celata | Rare/Accidental |
| Nashville Warbler | Vermivora ruficapilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Northern Parula | Parula americana | |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | Dendroica pensylvanica | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow Warbler | Dendroica petechia | |
| Blackpoll Warbler | Dendroica striata | |
| Magnolia Warbler | Dendroica magnolia | |
| Cape May Warbler | Dendroica tigrina | |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | Dendroica caerulescens | |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | Dendroica coronata | |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | Dendroica virens | Rare/Accidental |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | Dendroica dominica | |
| Prairie Warbler | Dendroica discolor | |
| Olive-capped Warbler | Dendroica pityophila | |
| Pine Warbler | Dendroica pinus | |
| Kirtland’s Warbler | Dendroica kirtlandii | Rare/Accidental Near-threatened |
| Palm Warbler | Dendroica palmarum | |
| Black-and-white Warbler | Mniotilta varia | |
| American Redstart | Setophaga ruticilla | |
| Worm-eating Warbler | Helmitheros vermivorum | |
| Swainson’s Warbler | Limnothlypis swainsonii | Rare/Accidental |
| Ovenbird | Seiurus aurocapilla | |
| Northern Waterthrush | Seiurus noveboracensis | |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | Seiurus motacilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Common Yellowthroat | Geothlypis trichas | |
| Bahama Yellowthroat | Geothlypis rostrata | Endemic (country/region) |
| Hooded Warbler | Wilsonia citrina | Rare/Accidental |
| Wilson’s Warbler | Wilsonia pusilla | Rare/Accidental |
| Icteridae | ||
| Baltimore Oriole | Icterus galbula | Rare/Accidental |
| Shiny Cowbird | Molothrus bonariensis | Rare/Accidental |
| Red-winged Blackbird | Agelaius phoeniceus | |
| Bobolink | Dolichonyx oryzivorus | |
| Coerebidae | ||
| Bananaquit | Coereba flaveola | |
| Emberizidae | ||
| Lincoln’s Sparrow | Melospiza lincolnii | Rare/Accidental |
| White-crowned Sparrow | Zonotrichia leucophrys | Rare/Accidental |
| Savannah Sparrow | Passerculus sandwichensis | |
| Grasshopper Sparrow | Ammodramus savannarum | Rare/Accidental |
| Chipping Sparrow | Spizella passerina | Rare/Accidental |
| Clay-colored Sparrow | Spizella pallida | Rare/Accidental |
| Black-faced Grassquit | Tiaris bicolor | |
| Greater Antillean Bullfinch | Loxigilla violacea | |
| Genera Incertae Sedis | ||
| Summer Tanager | Piranga rubra | Rare/Accidental |
| Scarlet Tanager | Piranga olivacea | Rare/Accidental |
| Western Spindalis | Spindalis zena | |
| Cardinalidae | ||
| Blue Grosbeak | Passerina caerulea | Rare/Accidental |
| Indigo Bunting | Passerina cyanea | |
| Painted Bunting | Passerina ciris | Near-threatened |
THE BIRDS OF ABACO 