Rare Birds in Honduras
Our list for Honduras has 43 rare birds recorded regularly there: 4 residents, 5 winter visitors, 30 passage migrants and 4 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Honduras in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 43, most common first
Eurasian TealAnas creccaPassage migrantRare34–38 cmRegularly Jan
Forster's TernSterna forsteriWinter visitorRare33–36 cmRegularly Aug–Feb
Northern Pygmy-owlGlaucidium gnomaPassage migrantRare15–17 cmRegularly Jan–May
Blue-footed BoobySula nebouxiiPassage migrantRare76–84 cmRegularly Feb
Northern PintailAnas acutaWinter visitorRare59–76 cmRegularly Nov–Feb
Arctic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusPassage migrantRare41–46 cmRegularly Feb–Apr
VeeryCatharus fuscescensPassage migrantRare16–19 cmRegularly Sep–Oct
Buff-breasted SandpiperCalidris subruficollisPassage migrantRare18–20 cmRegularly Sep
American Golden-PloverPluvialis dominicaPassage migrantRare24–28 cmRegularly Mar–Apr
Great CurassowCrax rubraPassage migrantRare84–92 cmRegularly Jan–Jul
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serratorScarceRare52–58 cmRegularly Jan
MallardAnas platyrhynchosPassage migrantRare50–65 cmRegularly May–Mar
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisScarceRare43–54 cm
Black-throated Blue WarblerSetophaga caerulescensPassage migrantRare11–13 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusScarceRare52–64 cm
Baird's SandpiperCalidris bairdiiPassage migrantRare14–17 cmRegularly May–Oct
Nashville WarblerLeiothlypis ruficapillaPassage migrantRare11–13 cmRegularly Jan
Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmusPassage migrantRare28–32 cmRegularly Sep–Nov
White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrysPassage migrantRare15–16 cmRegularly Nov
Stygian OwlAsio stygiusScarceRare41–46 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