As the images above suggest, (all captured on Grand Turk) birding on Grand Turk can be quite rewarding. From the
endemic and very approachable Bahama Woodstar, found just outside the doors of Crabtree Apartments year round,
to the gaudy Greater Flamingos found feeding and roosting along the northern tip of the island. Grand Turk is truly a
spectacular birding location.

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For information on accommodations on the island of Grand Turk please see:

www.Grandturkvacationrental.com

Grand Turk Vacation Rental 


A few photos and a list of the birds seen during my week on Grand Turk in April of 2004.

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"Click" on any for an image of that bird.

White-cheeked Pintail Peregrine Falcon Least Sandpiper Bank Swallow
Brown Pelican Clapper Rail Stilt Sandpiper Barn Swallow
Magnificent Frigatebird Black-bellied Plover Short-billed Dowitcher Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Great Blue Heron Snowy Plover Laughing Gull Gray Catbird
Great Egret Wilson's Plover Royal Tern Northern Mockingbird
Snowy Egret Semipalmated Plover Sandwich Tern Yellow Warbler
Little Blue Heron Killdeer Roseate Tern Cape May Warbler
Tricolored Heron American Oystercatcher Least Tern Black-throated Blue Warbler
Reddish Egret Black-necked Stilt White-winged Dove Prairie Warbler
Cattle Egret Greater Yellowlegs Mourning Dove Palm Warbler
Green Heron Lesser Yellowlegs Common Ground-Dove Black-and-white Warbler
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Willet Mangrove Cuckoo Northern Waterthrush
Greater Flamingo Spotted sandpiper Smooth-billed Ani Common Yellowthroat
Osprey Whimbrel Bahama Woodstar Bananaquit
Swallow-tailed Kite Ruddy Turnstone Belted Kingfisher Blue Grosbeak
American Kestrel Sanderling Gray Kingbird Indigo Bunting
Merlin Semipalmated Sandpiper Black-whiskered Vireo  

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All Images Copyright Phil Brown 2005


A few books I found very helpful in planning and preparing for my trip to Grand Turk:

The Turks & Caicos National Trust launched its publication of the first comprehensive book about the Birds of the Turks and Caicos Islands in November of 2001. The book is a hardcover, with 96 pages and 236 colored photos of birds found in the islands. The birds were photographed and information written by Richard Ground.

Available from Turks & Caicos National Trust

 

Turks & Caicos National Trust
P.O. Box 540 ~ Providenciales
Turks & Caicos Islands ~ BWI
Phone:649 941 5710
Fax:649 941 4258
Email: tc.nattrust@tciway.tc


 

 

Available through Amazon.com at:

Birds of the West Indies

 

 

 

 


 

 

Available through Amazon.com at:

A Birders Guide to the Bahama Islands

or from the American Birding Association at:

A Birders Guide to the Bahama Islands

 

 


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Comments or Questions pertaining to the
photos on this site or birding Grand Turk
can be directed to Phil Brown