Uncommon Birds in China
Our list for China has 127 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 36 residents, 41 summer visitors, 49 winter visitors and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in China in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 127, most common first
Plumbeous Water-redstartPhoenicurus fuliginosusResidentUncommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
Wood SandpiperTringa glareolaSummer visitorUncommon19–21 cmRecorded all year
Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinusWinter visitorUncommon34–58 cmRecorded all year
Kentish PloverCharadrius alexandrinusResidentUncommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Oriental Honey-buzzardPernis ptilorhynchusSummer visitorUncommon52–68 cmRecorded all year
Red-billed ChoughPyrrhocorax pyrrhocoraxSummer visitorUncommon39–43 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeWinter visitorUncommon42–51 cmRegularly Sep–May
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataWinter visitorUncommon44–51 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Northern PintailAnas acutaWinter visitorUncommon59–76 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Dusky ThrushTurdus eunomusWinter visitorUncommon23–25 cmRegularly Oct–May
Green SandpiperTringa ochropusWinter visitorUncommon21–24 cmRecorded all year
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusSummer visitorUncommon40–46 cmRegularly Apr–Jan
Gull-billed TernGelochelidon niloticaSummer visitorUncommon33–42 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Black-tailed GullLarus crassirostrisSummer visitorUncommon43–51 cmRecorded all year
Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochrurosSummer visitorUncommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Tufted DuckAythya fuligulaWinter visitorUncommon40–47 cmRegularly Jun–Apr
Common SnipeGallinago gallinagoWinter visitorUncommon25–27 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Vega GullLarus vegaeWinter visitorUncommon55–67 cmRegularly Jun–Apr
RedshankTringa totanusSummer visitorUncommon27–29 cmRecorded all year
Mandarin DuckAix galericulataResidentUncommon41–49 cmRecorded all year
Rock DoveColumba liviaResidentUncommon29–37 cmRecorded all year
Scaly-breasted MuniaLonchura punctulataResidentUncommon11–12 cmRecorded all year
PochardAythya ferinaWinter visitorUncommon42–49 cmRecorded all year
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