Animals of Antigua and Barbuda
37 animals on World Animal Map have open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records from Antigua and Barbuda on GBIF: 30 birds, 5 insects & other invertebrates, 1 sharks & fish, 1 mammals. Species marked “introduced” are listed as non-native there by GRIIS checklists. Show on the world map
All 37 animals by group
Bats 1
- Jamaican fruit bat Artibeus jamaicensis
Birds of prey 1
- Osprey Pandion haliaetus
Ducks, geese & swans 2
- Blue-winged teal Spatula discors
- Ruddy duck Oxyura jamaicensis
Waders, gulls, terns & auks 8
- Grey plover Pluvialis squatarola
- Laughing gull Leucophaeus atricilla
- Lesser black-backed gull Larus fuscus
- Lesser yellowlegs Tringa flavipes
- Ruddy turnstone Arenaria interpres
- Sandwich tern Thalasseus sandvicensis
- Sooty tern Onychoprion fuscatus
- Spotted sandpiper Actitis macularius
Seabirds, divers & grebes 4
- Brown booby Sula leucogaster
- Brown pelican Pelecanus occidentalis
- Magnificent frigatebird Fregata magnificens
- Pied-billed grebe Podilymbus podiceps
Herons, storks, cranes & flamingos 10
- American coot Fulica americana
- Black-crowned night heron Nycticorax nycticorax
- Common moorhen Gallinula chloropus
- Great blue heron Ardea herodias
- Great egret Ardea alba
- Green heron Butorides virescens
- Little blue heron Egretta caerulea
- Snowy egret Egretta thula
- Western cattle egret Ardea ibis
- Yellow-crowned night heron Nyctanassa violacea
Pigeons & doves 2
- Eurasian collared dove Streptopelia decaocto (introduced)
- Rock dove Columba livia
Woodpeckers, kingfishers, hornbills & toucans 1
- Belted kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon
Songbirds & perching birds 2
- Barn swallow Hirundo rustica
- House sparrow Passer domesticus
Rays, skates & chimaeras 1
- Southern stingray Dasyatis americana
Crabs, lobsters & shrimps 3
- Caribbean hermit crab Coenobita clypeatus
- Grapsus grapsus Grapsus grapsus
- Panulirus argus Panulirus argus
Jellyfish, corals & anemones 1
- Staghorn coral Acropora cervicornis
Starfish, sea urchins & relatives 1
- Diadema antillarum Diadema antillarum
Presence means at least a few wild records with coordinates (and a minimum share of the species’ records, to exclude vagrants and escapes) in GBIF data licensed CC0 or CC BY 4.0. Some species may be missing where open data is scarce.