Rare Birds in South Australia
Our list for South Australia has 24 rare birds recorded regularly there: 10 residents, 7 summer visitors, 1 winter visitor, 5 passage migrants and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in South Australia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 24, most common first
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Sanderling 18–20 cm
- Pectoral Sandpiper 19–23 cm
- Little Tern 21–25 cm
- White-winged Tern 20–27 cm
- Common Tern 31–35 cm
- Little Penguin 30–40 cm
- Gull-billed Tern 33–42 cm
- Rose-ringed Parakeet 38–42 cm
- Black-tailed Godwit 40–44 cm
- Whimbrel 40–46 cm
- Arctic Jaeger 41–46 cm
- Sooty Shearwater 40–51 cm
- Pomarine Jaeger 46–51 cm
- White-chinned Petrel 50–58 cm
- Glossy Ibis 48–66 cm
- Helmeted Guineafowl 53–63 cm
- Common Pheasant 50–90 cm
- Muscovy Duck 66–84 cm
- Wild Turkey 100–125 cm
- Southern Royal Albatross 115–123 cm
- Australian Bustard 100–140 cm
- Wandering Albatross 107–135 cm
- Indian Peafowl 86–230 cm
- Common Ostrich 210–275 cm
Body length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
Data: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made