Rare Birds in Greece
Our list for Greece has 36 rare birds recorded regularly there: 5 residents, 2 summer visitors, 4 winter visitors, 19 passage migrants and 6 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Greece in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 36, most common first
Arctic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusPassage migrantRare41–46 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Mandarin DuckAix galericulataPassage migrantRare41–49 cmRegularly Aug–Oct
Short-eared OwlAsio flammeusPassage migrantRare34–43 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Canada GooseBranta canadensisPassage migrantRare76–110 cmRegularly Apr–Jan
European Herring GullLarus argentatusScarceRare55–67 cmRegularly Nov
Red-breasted GooseBranta ruficollisPassage migrantRare53–56 cmRegularly Jan–Feb
KittiwakeRissa tridactylaScarceRare37–41 cm
Northern GannetMorus bassanusScarceRare87–100 cm
European Storm-petrelHydrobates pelagicusPassage migrantRare14–18 cmRegularly Jun–Jul
Black SwanCygnus atratusScarceRare110–142 cm
Wood DuckAix sponsaPassage migrantRare47–54 cmRegularly Dec
CockatielNymphicus hollandicusScarceRare30–33 cm
CorncrakeCrex crexScarceRare22–30 cm
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