Rare Birds in China
Our list for China has 101 rare birds recorded regularly there: 10 residents, 35 summer visitors, 11 winter visitors, 39 passage migrants and 6 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in China in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 101, most common first
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisPassage migrantRare36–41 cmRegularly Jun
Montagu's HarrierCircus pygargusPassage migrantRare43–47 cmRegularly May–Jun
Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenusPassage migrantRare12–13 cmRegularly Jun
CockatielNymphicus hollandicusScarceRare30–33 cm
BudgerigarMelopsittacus undulatusPassage migrantRare18–20 cmRegularly Jul–Nov
Hooded CrowCorvus cornixScarceRare44–51 cm
Boreal OwlAegolius funereusScarceRare21–28 cm
Canada GooseBranta canadensisPassage migrantRare76–110 cmRegularly Mar–Apr
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilusPassage migrantRare11–13 cmRegularly 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