Rare Birds in Quebec
Our list for Quebec has 62 rare birds recorded regularly there: 3 residents, 16 summer visitors, 2 winter visitors, 37 passage migrants and 4 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Quebec in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 62, most common first
Leach's Storm-petrelHydrobates leucorhousPassage migrantRare18–21 cmRegularly Jun–Nov
Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinusPassage migrantRare46–51 cmRegularly Aug–Oct
Mute SwanCygnus olorSummer visitorRare140–160 cmRegularly May–Sep
Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citreaPassage migrantRare13–14 cmRegularly May–Sep
Tufted DuckAythya fuligulaPassage migrantRare40–47 cmRegularly May
RuffCalidris pugnaxPassage migrantRare20–32 cmRegularly May
Common GullLarus canusPassage migrantRare40–46 cmRegularly Nov–Dec
Pacific LoonGavia pacificaResidentRare58–74 cmRegularly Jun–Oct
Say's PhoebeSayornis sayaPassage migrantRare17–20 cmRegularly Sep
Great ShearwaterArdenna gravisPassage migrantRare43–51 cmRegularly Jul–Sep
Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglectaPassage migrantRare16–26 cmRegularly May–Jun
Greylag GooseAnser anserPassage migrantRare75–90 cmRegularly Dec–Mar
ChukarAlectoris chukarSummer visitorRare32–38 cmRegularly May–Jan
Black SwanCygnus atratusScarceRare110–142 cm
Sooty ShearwaterArdenna griseaPassage migrantRare40–51 cmRegularly Jun–Oct
Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufaPassage migrantRare32–34 cmRegularly Dec–Jan
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