St. Martin Wildlife Guide
Update: Due to the creation of a print and eBook guide to the wildlife of Saint Martin, this guide is no longer being updated, so please check out The Incomplete Guide to the Wildlife of Saint Martin. Thanks!
In this guide, I will endeavor to catalog the various species of wildlife encountered on St. Martin. Photographs, descriptions and identification will be done to the best of my ability, but I welcome any additional comments, corrections or information.
- Birds
- Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola)
- Black-necked Stilt (Himantopus mexicanus)
- Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis)
- Carib Grackle (Quiscalus lugubris)
- Cattle Egret (Bubulcus ibis)
- Common Moorhen (Gallinula chloropus)
- Eurasian Collared Dove (Streptopelia decaocto)
- Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
- Great Egret (Ardea alba)
- Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus)
- Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata)
- Pearly-eyed Thrasher (Margarops fuscatus)
- Ruddy Turnstone (Arenaria interpres)
- Willet (Catoptrophorus semipalmatus)
- Zenaida Dove (Zenaida aurita)
- Butterflies
- Angerona Hairstreak (Electrostrymon angerona)
- Cassius Blue (Leptotes cassius cassioides)
- Checkered Swallowtail (Papilio demoleus)
- Cloudless Sulphur (Phoebis sennae)
- Columella Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon columella)
- Disjunct Scrub-Hairstreak (Strymon bubastus ponce)
- Florida White (Appias drusilla)
- Great Southern White (Ascia monuste)
- Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae)
- Hall’s Sulfur (Eurema leuce)
- Hanno Blue (Hemiargus h. hanno)
- Little Yellow (Eurema lisa)
- Long-tailed Skipper (Urbanus proteus)
- Mimic (Hypolimnas misippus)
- Monarch Butterfly (Danaus plexippus)
- Tropical Buckeye (Junonia genoveva)
- Tropical Checkered Skipper (Pyrgus oileus)
- Moths
- Reptiles
- Anole (Anolis gingivinus)
- Anole (Anolis pogus)
- Dwarf Gecko (Sphaerodactylus macrolepis)
- Dwarf Gecko (Sphaerodactylus sputator)
- Green Iguana (Iguana iguana)
- Green Turtle (Chelonia mydas)
- Ground Lizard (Ameiva plei)
- Hawksbill Turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata)
- House Gecko (Hemidactylus mabouia)
- Red-footed Tortoise (Geochelone carbonaria)
- Spiders