Uncommon Birds in Chile
Our list for Chile has 26 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 15 residents, 10 summer visitors and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Chile in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 26, most common first
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Sand Martin 12–14 cm
- White-rumped Sandpiper 15–18 cm
- Semipalmated Sandpiper 15–18 cm
- Barn Swallow 17–19 cm
- Semipalmated Plover 17–19 cm
- Sanderling 18–20 cm
- Grey Phalarope 20–22 cm
- Pectoral Sandpiper 19–23 cm
- Burrowing Owl 19–25 cm
- Ruddy Turnstone 21–24 cm
- Wilson's Phalarope 22–24 cm
- American Golden-Plover 24–28 cm
- Grey Plover 27–30 cm
- Pied-billed Grebe 31–38 cm
- Willet 33–41 cm
- Short-eared Owl 34–43 cm
- Hudsonian Godwit 36–42 cm
- Arctic Jaeger 41–46 cm
- Sooty Shearwater 40–51 cm
- Peregrine Falcon 34–58 cm
- Cattle Egret 46–56 cm
- White-chinned Petrel 50–58 cm
- Magellanic Penguin 60–75 cm
- Humboldt Penguin 65–70 cm
- Cocoi Heron 95–127 cm
- Southern Royal Albatross 115–123 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