Uncommon Birds in France
Our list for France has 141 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 49 residents, 43 summer visitors, 40 winter visitors and 9 passage migrants
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 141, most common first
SanderlingCalidris albaWinter visitorUncommon18–20 cmRecorded all year
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaWinter visitorUncommon40–51 cmRegularly Nov–May
Dartford WarblerCurruca undataResidentUncommon12–13 cmRecorded all year
Balearic ShearwaterPuffinus mauretanicusSummer visitorUncommon35–40 cmRegularly May–Dec
Gull-billed TernGelochelidon niloticaSummer visitorUncommon33–42 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Spotted RedshankTringa erythropusResidentUncommon29–31 cmRecorded all year
Lesser Spotted WoodpeckerDryobates minorResidentUncommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian Stone-curlewBurhinus oedicnemusSummer visitorUncommon40–44 cmRecorded all year
Kentish PloverCharadrius alexandrinusSummer visitorUncommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiacaResidentUncommon63–73 cmRecorded all year
MerlinFalco columbariusWinter visitorUncommon24–33 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponicaWinter visitorUncommon37–41 cmRecorded all year
Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferrugineaPassage migrantUncommon18–23 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Hooded CrowCorvus cornixResidentUncommon44–51 cmRecorded all year
KittiwakeRissa tridactylaWinter visitorUncommon37–41 cmRecorded all year
Black TernChlidonias nigerSummer visitorUncommon22–26 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufaResidentUncommon32–34 cmRecorded all year
Manx ShearwaterPuffinus puffinusSummer visitorUncommon30–38 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
RazorbillAlca tordaWinter visitorUncommon38–43 cmRegularly Sep–Jul
Montagu's HarrierCircus pygargusSummer visitorUncommon43–47 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serratorWinter visitorUncommon52–58 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Little GullHydrocoloeus minutusWinter visitorUncommon25–30 cmRecorded all year
Ring OuzelTurdus torquatusSummer visitorUncommon23–24 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
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