Rare Birds in India
Our list for India has 102 rare birds recorded regularly there: 24 residents, 16 summer visitors, 50 winter visitors, 11 passage migrants and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in India in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 102, most common first
Coal TitPeriparus aterResidentRare10–12 cmRecorded all year
Red-backed ShrikeLanius collurioPassage migrantRare16–18 cmRegularly Sep
Short-toed LarkCalandrella brachydactylaWinter visitorRare14–17 cmRegularly Sep–Mar
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatusWinter visitorRare46–51 cmRecorded all year
HobbyFalco subbuteoSummer visitorRare28–35 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentRare50–65 cmRecorded all year
Bonelli's EagleAquila fasciataResidentRare65–72 cmRecorded all year
Spotted RedshankTringa erythropusWinter visitorRare29–31 cmRegularly Jul–May
Red-billed ChoughPyrrhocorax pyrrhocoraxSummer visitorRare39–43 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian JayGarrulus glandariusResidentRare32–35 cmRecorded all year
Little TernSternula albifronsResidentRare21–25 cmRecorded all year
Sulphur-bellied WarblerPhylloscopus griseolusWinter visitorRare11–12 cmRecorded all year
Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferrugineaWinter visitorRare18–23 cmRegularly Jul–May
Alpine SwiftTachymarptis melbaResidentRare20–23 cmRecorded all year
WhitethroatCurruca communisPassage migrantRare13–15 cmRegularly Sep
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpresWinter visitorRare21–24 cmRegularly Aug–May
TwiteLinaria flavirostrisSummer visitorRare13–14 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
ChukarAlectoris chukarSummer visitorRare32–38 cmRecorded all year
SanderlingCalidris albaWinter visitorRare18–20 cmRegularly Aug–May
Oriental Scops-owlOtus suniaResidentRare16–20 cmRecorded all year
Fulvous Whistling-DuckDendrocygna bicolorResidentRare45–53 cmRecorded all year
Alpine ChoughPyrrhocorax graculusSummer visitorRare36–39 cmRecorded all year
Grey PloverPluvialis squatarolaWinter visitorRare27–30 cmRegularly Aug–May
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