Uncommon Birds in Iceland
Our list for Iceland has 50 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 4 residents, 12 summer visitors, 11 winter visitors, 21 passage migrants and 2 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 50, most common first
RuffCalidris pugnaxPassage migrantUncommon20–32 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striataPassage migrantUncommon14–16 cmRegularly Sep
House SparrowPasser domesticusPassage migrantUncommon14–17 cmRegularly Jan–May
Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicusPassage migrantUncommon15–16 cmRegularly May–Oct
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