Uncommon Birds in Kerry
Our list for Kerry has 40 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 3 residents, 11 summer visitors, 19 passage migrants and 7 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Kerry in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 40, most common first
Sooty ShearwaterArdenna griseaPassage migrantUncommon40–51 cmRegularly Jul–Oct
Water RailRallus aquaticusResidentUncommon23–28 cmRegularly Aug–Oct
White-tailed Sea-eagleHaliaeetus albicillaSummer visitorUncommon66–94 cmRegularly May–Sep
Arctic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusPassage migrantUncommon41–46 cmRegularly Jul–Oct
Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferrugineaPassage migrantUncommon18–23 cmRegularly Sep
RuffCalidris pugnaxPassage migrantUncommon20–32 cmRegularly Sep–Oct
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataScarceUncommon44–51 cm
Grasshopper WarblerLocustella naeviaPassage migrantUncommon12–13 cmRegularly May
MerlinFalco columbariusPassage migrantUncommon24–33 cmRegularly Oct
EiderSomateria mollissimaScarceUncommon50–71 cm
Great ShearwaterArdenna gravisPassage migrantUncommon43–51 cmRegularly Aug
Great SkuaStercorarius skuaPassage migrantUncommon50–58 cmRegularly Jul–Sep
Little TernSternula albifronsPassage migrantUncommon21–25 cmRegularly Jul
WhitethroatCurruca communisPassage migrantUncommon13–15 cmRegularly May
American Golden-PloverPluvialis dominicaPassage migrantUncommon24–28 cmRegularly Oct
Greylag GooseAnser anserScarceUncommon75–90 cm
Common Reed-warblerAcrocephalus scirpaceusPassage migrantUncommon13–14 cmRegularly 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