Uncommon Birds in Nunavut
Our list for Nunavut has 25 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 1 resident, 2 summer visitors, 16 passage migrants and 6 scarce visitors
All 25, most common first
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Tennessee Warbler 10–13 cm
- Northern Yellow Warbler 12–13 cm
- Yellow-rumped Warbler 12–15 cm
- Lincoln's Sparrow 13–15 cm
- Fox Sparrow 15–19 cm
- Ringed Plover 17–19 cm
- Barn Swallow 17–19 cm
- Sanderling 18–20 cm
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper 18–20 cm
- Red Knot 23–26 cm
- Lesser Yellowlegs 23–27 cm
- Bonaparte's Gull 28–38 cm
- Greater Yellowlegs 29–40 cm
- Eurasian Teal 34–38 cm
- Short-eared Owl 34–43 cm
- Hudsonian Godwit 36–42 cm
- Whimbrel 40–46 cm
- American Crow 41–53 cm
- Greater Scaup 39–56 cm
- Ring-billed Gull 43–54 cm
- Surf Scoter 48–60 cm
- American Black Duck 54–59 cm
- Mallard 50–65 cm
- Common Merganser 58–68 cm
- Bald Eagle 70–102 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