Rare Birds in French Guiana
Our list for French Guiana has 9 rare birds recorded regularly there: 5 passage migrants and 4 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in French Guiana in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 9, most common first
Black TernChlidonias nigerScarceRare22–26 cm
Mottled OwlStrix virgataPassage migrantRare30–38 cmRegularly May–Oct
Arctic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusScarceRare41–46 cm
Great Horned OwlBubo virginianusPassage migrantRare46–63 cmRegularly Jun–Sep
White-winged TernChlidonias leucopterusScarceRare20–27 cm
MerlinFalco columbariusPassage migrantRare24–33 cmRegularly Jan–Feb
Hudsonian GodwitLimosa haemasticaScarceRare36–42 cmRegularly Oct
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusPassage migrantRare38–44 cmRegularly Dec
Sand MartinRiparia ripariaPassage migrantRare12–14 cmRegularly Nov
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: 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