Herons and Egrets
Great Blue Heron
Green HeronLittle
Blue Heron
Cattle Egret
Great Egret
Snowy Egret
Yellow-crowned Night Heron
Black-crowned Night Heron
Tricoloured Heron
Tropicbirds:
White-tailed Tropicbird
Red-billed Tropicbird
Pelicans:
Brown Pelican
Boobies:
Blue-faced Booby
Brown Booby
Red-footed Booby
Frigatebirds:
Magnificent Frigatebird
Ducks:
Northern Pintail Duck
Blue-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal
White-cheeked Pintail
American Widgeon
Northern Shoveler
Ring-necked Duck
Lesser Scaup
Ruddy Duck
Masked Duck
Muscovy Duck
Grebes: ied-billed Grebe
Ospreys: Osprey
Warblers:
Yellow Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
Prothinotary Warbler
Parula Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Northern Waterthrush
Louisiana Waterthrush
Hooded Warbler
Finches:
Streaked Saltator
Black-faced Grassquit
Lesser Antillean Bullfinch
Blackbirds:
Bobolink
Carib Grackle
Northern Oriole
Glossy Cowbird
Gulls and Terns:
Laughing Gull
Ring-billed Gull
Herring Gull
Caspian Tern
Royal Tern
Sandwich Tern
Roseate Tern
Common Tern
Least Tern
Bridled Tern
Sooty Tern
Brown Noddy
Cuckoos and Anis:
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Mangrove Cuckoo
Smooth-billed Ani
Swifts:
Black swift
White-collared swift
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Kingfishers:
Belted K.
Nightjars:
Common Nighthawk
Hawks:
Sharp-shinned Hawk
Common Black Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Broad-winged Hawk
Falcons:
Kestral
Peregrine Falcon
Merlin
Cormorants
Double-crested Cormorant
Olivaceous Cormorant
Rails, Gallinules,& Coots:
Clapper Rail
Sora
Purple Gallinule
Common Gallinule
American Coot
Caribbean Coot
Oystercatchers:
Maybe?
Plovers and Turnstones:
Semipalmated Plover
Piping Plover
Thick-billed Plover
Snowy Plover
Killdeer
Black-bellied Plover
Lesser Golden Plover
Ruddy Turnstone
Stilts:
Common Stilt
Doves and Pigeons:
Red-necked Pigeon
White-crowned Pigeon
Feral Pigeon
Zenaida Dove
Ground Dove
Bridled Quail Dove
Thrushes: Veery
Vireos: Black-whiskered
Hummingbirds:
Purple-throated Carib
Green-Throated Carib
Antillean Crested
Antillean Mango??
Woodpeckers:
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Tyrant Flycatchers:
Grey Kingbird
Stolid Flycatcher
Lesser Antillean Flycatcher
Lesser Antillean Peewee
Caribbean Elaenia
Ibises:
Glossy Ibis
Guineas:
Common Guinea
Shearwaters:
Audubon's Shearwater
Storm Petrels:
Wilson's Storm Petrel
Leach's Storm Petrel
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Reptiles and Amphibians:
Ground Lizard
Green Anole
Brown Anole
Geckos (Three species)
"Mountain Worm "or Blind Burrowing Snake
Sea Turtles: Green. Hawksbill, or Leatherback plus juvenile Loggerheads
Frogs : West Indian Tree Frog, Cuban Tree Frog, Cochi, Marine Toad
Snipes and Sandpipers:
Common Snipe
Whimbrel
Spotted Sandpiper
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Willet
Pectoral Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Sanderling
Red Knot
Western Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
American Dowitcher
Marbled Gotwit
Black-tailed Gotwit
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Ruff
Skuas:
Pomarine Skua
Swallows:
Purple Martin
Caribbean Martin
Bank Swallow
Barn Swallow
Mockingbirds & Thrashers:
Tropical Mockingbird
Trembler
Scaly-breasted Thrasher
Pearly-eyed Thrasher
Honeycreepers:
Bananaquit
Tanagers:
Summer Tanager
Blue-hooded Euphonia
Scarlet Tanager
Mammals:
Bats (Free-tailed Bats, Leaf-nosed Bats, Flower Bats, and Fishing Bats)
Mongoose
Vervet monkey
Donkeys, Goats
Sheep, Pigs
Dogs, Cats
Cattle, Horses
References:
Birds of the West Indies
by James Bond
Birds of the Eastern Caribbean by Paul Evans
Birds of Nevis by Paul Hilder
The Natural History of the Island of Nevis by the Nevis Historical and Conservation Society
Private Listings
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