Rare Birds in Iceland
Our list for Iceland has 38 rare birds recorded regularly there: 6 summer visitors, 23 passage migrants and 9 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Iceland in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 38, most common first
White-winged TernChlidonias leucopterusScarceRare20–27 cmRegularly Jun
Leach's Storm-petrelHydrobates leucorhousPassage migrantRare18–21 cmRegularly Jun–Aug
Long-tailed JaegerStercorarius longicaudusPassage migrantRare48–58 cmRegularly May–Aug
Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinusSummer visitorRare46–51 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
SmewMergellus albellusPassage migrantRare38–44 cmRegularly May–Jun
Grey PloverPluvialis squatarolaPassage migrantRare27–30 cmRegularly May–Oct
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphiaPassage migrantRare28–38 cmRegularly Jul
HawfinchCoccothraustes coccothraustesPassage migrantRare17–18 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Wood SandpiperTringa glareolaScarceRare19–21 cm
Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferrugineaPassage migrantRare18–23 cmRegularly Jun–Sep
Wood WarblerPhylloscopus sibilatrixPassage migrantRare11–13 cmRegularly Oct
GreenshankTringa nebulariaScarceRare30–35 cm
White-rumped SandpiperCalidris fuscicollisPassage migrantRare15–18 cmRegularly Jul
Common SwiftApus apusPassage migrantRare16–17 cmRegularly Jun–Jul
Black SwanCygnus atratusScarceRare110–142 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