Uncommon Birds in New Brunswick
Our list for New Brunswick has 95 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 9 residents, 30 summer visitors, 23 winter visitors, 32 passage migrants and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in New Brunswick in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 95, most common first
Rough-legged HawkButeo lagopusWinter visitorUncommon46–59 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbulaSummer visitorUncommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Jan
Horned GrebePodiceps auritusWinter visitorUncommon31–38 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegenaWinter visitorUncommon40–50 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Fox SparrowPasserella iliacaWinter visitorUncommon15–19 cmRegularly Oct–Jun
Bay-breasted WarblerSetophaga castaneaSummer visitorUncommon14–14 cmRegularly May–Sep
Northern WaterthrushParkesia noveboracensisSummer visitorUncommon12–15 cmRegularly May–Sep
Cape May WarblerSetophaga tigrinaSummer visitorUncommon12–14 cmRegularly May–Oct
Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotosPassage migrantUncommon19–23 cmRegularly Aug–Oct
Greater ScaupAythya marilaWinter visitorUncommon39–56 cmRegularly Sep–May
Brent GooseBranta berniclaWinter visitorUncommon55–66 cmRegularly Dec–May
Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinusPassage migrantUncommon46–51 cmRegularly Aug–Sep
Northern PintailAnas acutaWinter visitorUncommon59–76 cmRecorded all year
Horned LarkEremophila alpestrisWinter visitorUncommon16–20 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Philadelphia VireoVireo philadelphicusSummer visitorUncommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialisSummer visitorUncommon16–21 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
WilletTringa semipalmataSummer visitorUncommon33–41 cmRegularly May–Sep
Leach's Storm-petrelHydrobates leucorhousSummer visitorUncommon18–21 cmRegularly May–Oct
Solitary SandpiperTringa solitariaPassage migrantUncommon19–23 cmRegularly May–Oct
Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterusSummer visitorUncommon34–44 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentUncommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
Grey PhalaropePhalaropus fulicariusPassage migrantUncommon20–22 cmRegularly Jul–Sep
Great White EgretArdea albaSummer visitorUncommon80–104 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
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