A Guide to Birds of Bayaleau Point
Partial list of birds tentatively identified between late April — early May, 2002*
(by Rank Amateurs)
Antillean crested hummingbird
Becard, white winged (near Val’s and on road to Windward)
Brown booby
Brown pelican
Cattle egret in breeding plumage
Cuckoo
Dark billed cuckoo
Mangrove cuckoo
Dove
Band tailed pigeon
Blue ground dove
Plain breasted ground dove
Yellow-bellied Elaenia (Marion’s place and near Val’s)
Flycatcher
Bare eyed flycatcher
Fuscious flycatcher?
Venezuelan flycatcher
Frigate (male, female, youngsters)
Gull
Laughing gull
Franklin’s gull
Gray kingbird
Grackle
Carib grackle
Antillean grackle
Greater ani (by pond and in mangroves)
Killdeer
Little blue heron (black heron)
Mockingbird
Bahamian mockingbird (or young tropical hummingbird?)
Mockingbird
Tropical mockingbird
Plover
Semi-pilated plover?
Spotted plover
‘Quit
Bananaquit
Black faced grassquit (yellow beak)
Sooty grassquit
Ruddy turnstone
Terns — many, as the cards go….
Ternbuckle
Tern limits
Tern of Fortune
Terniquet
Ternstyle
Tern Up
Good Birding, guys! .
Multiple sightings in each species, male and female morphologies, where applicable to species is implied. Others were observed but not identified, i.e., pipers, swallows.