Rare Birds in Canada
Our list for Canada has 74 rare birds recorded regularly there: 7 residents, 21 summer visitors, 15 winter visitors, 28 passage migrants and 3 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Canada in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 74, most common first
Little EgretEgretta garzettaPassage migrantRare55–65 cmRegularly Oct–Nov
Golden PloverPluvialis apricariaPassage migrantRare26–29 cmRegularly Apr–May
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusPassage migrantRare28–31 cmRegularly Nov
Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosaPassage migrantRare40–44 cmRegularly Apr–May
Great SkuaStercorarius skuaPassage migrantRare50–58 cmRegularly Aug–Sep
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