Rare Birds in Portugal
Our list for Portugal has 88 rare birds recorded regularly there: 16 residents, 7 summer visitors, 30 winter visitors, 27 passage migrants and 8 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Portugal in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 88, most common first
Mute SwanCygnus olorResidentRare140–160 cmRecorded all year
Common PheasantPhasianus colchicusResidentRare50–90 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian WoodcockScolopax rusticolaResidentRare33–38 cmRecorded all year
Leach's Storm-petrelHydrobates leucorhousPassage migrantRare18–21 cmRegularly Sep–Jan
Squacco HeronArdeola ralloidesResidentRare40–49 cmRecorded all year
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisWinter visitorRare15–18 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
DotterelEudromias morinellusPassage migrantRare20–22 cmRegularly Sep–Oct
Monk ParakeetMyiopsitta monachusResidentRare29–31 cmRecorded all year
Red-throated LoonGavia stellataWinter visitorRare53–69 cmRegularly Nov–Mar
Sabine's GullXema sabiniSummer visitorRare27–33 cmRegularly May–Dec
Ruddy ShelduckTadorna ferrugineaWinter visitorRare58–70 cmRecorded all year
Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatusPassage migrantRare18–19 cmRegularly May–Nov
Arctic TernSterna paradisaeaPassage migrantRare33–39 cmRegularly May–Nov
Atlantic PuffinFratercula arcticaWinter visitorRare28–34 cmRegularly Nov–May
Jack SnipeLymnocryptes minimusWinter visitorRare17–19 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
EiderSomateria mollissimaWinter visitorRare50–71 cmRegularly Aug–May
Brent GooseBranta berniclaWinter visitorRare55–66 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Temminck's StintCalidris temminckiiWinter visitorRare13–15 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Least SandpiperCalidris minutillaWinter visitorRare13–15 cmRegularly Jul–Apr
Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchusWinter visitorRare60–75 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Eleonora's FalconFalco eleonoraePassage migrantRare36–42 cmRegularly Jul–Oct
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphiaPassage migrantRare28–38 cmRegularly Jan–Apr
Black SwanCygnus atratusResidentRare110–142 cmRecorded all year
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