Rare Birds in France
Our list for France has 80 rare birds recorded regularly there: 13 residents, 17 summer visitors, 20 winter visitors, 27 passage migrants and 3 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in France in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 80, most common first
Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensisWinter visitorRare35–43 cmRegularly May–Feb
Rough-legged HawkButeo lagopusWinter visitorRare46–59 cmRegularly Dec–Feb
Western CapercaillieTetrao urogallusPassage migrantRare60–87 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceusPassage migrantRare27–30 cmRegularly Oct
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusScarceRare53–65 cmRegularly Feb
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphiaPassage migrantRare28–38 cmRegularly Dec
Monk ParakeetMyiopsitta monachusPassage migrantRare29–31 cmRegularly Oct–Feb
CockatielNymphicus hollandicusSummer visitorRare30–33 cmRegularly Apr–Jul
Cackling GooseBranta hutchinsiiScarceRare53–76 cm
BudgerigarMelopsittacus undulatusPassage migrantRare18–20 cmRegularly Feb
Black GuillemotCepphus gryllePassage migrantRare30–32 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