Uncommon Birds in Liberia
Our list for Liberia has 28 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 5 winter visitors, 11 passage migrants and 12 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Liberia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 28, most common first
Green SandpiperTringa ochropusScarceUncommon21–24 cmRegularly Mar
Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticoraxPassage migrantUncommon58–65 cmRegularly Feb
Wood WarblerPhylloscopus sibilatrixScarceUncommon11–13 cm
House MartinDelichon urbicumScarceUncommon13–15 cm
Little TernSternula albifronsScarceUncommon21–25 cm
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Willow Warbler 11–13 cm
- Wood Warbler 11–13 cm
- European Pied Flycatcher 12–14 cm
- Whinchat 12–14 cm
- Sand Martin 12–14 cm
- Common Reed-warbler 13–14 cm
- House Martin 13–15 cm
- Garden Warbler 14–15 cm
- Tree Pipit 14–16 cm
- Green Sandpiper 21–24 cm
- Little Tern 21–25 cm
- Black Tern 22–26 cm
- Little Grebe 23–29 cm
- African Jacana 23–31 cm
- European Bee-eater 27–29 cm
- Greenshank 30–35 cm
- Moorhen 30–38 cm
- Kestrel 32–39 cm
- Barn Owl 33–39 cm
- Sandwich Tern 36–41 cm
- Rose-ringed Parakeet 38–42 cm
- Squacco Heron 40–49 cm
- European Honey-buzzard 52–60 cm
- Little Egret 55–65 cm
- Black-crowned Night-heron 58–65 cm
- Purple Heron 78–90 cm
- Great White Egret 80–104 cm
- Grey Heron 90–98 cm
Body length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
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