Rare Birds in Japan
Our list for Japan has 53 rare birds recorded regularly there: 5 residents, 10 summer visitors, 13 winter visitors, 21 passage migrants and 4 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Japan in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 53, most common first
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusScarceRare53–65 cmRegularly Feb
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoPassage migrantRare30–32 cmRegularly May–Aug
Common RosefinchCarpodacus erythrinusPassage migrantRare13–15 cmRegularly May
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaPassage migrantRare10–12 cmRegularly May
Lesser WhitethroatCurruca currucaScarceRare11–13 cmRegularly Oct
Horned LarkEremophila alpestrisPassage migrantRare16–20 cmRegularly Feb
Chestnut MuniaLonchura atricapillaScarceRare10–11 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