Rare Birds in Puerto Rico
Our list for Puerto Rico has 38 rare birds recorded regularly there: 3 residents, 7 winter visitors, 25 passage migrants and 3 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Puerto Rico in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 38, most common first
Upland SandpiperBartramia longicaudaPassage migrantRare28–32 cmRegularly Sep–Oct
Piping PloverCharadrius melodusPassage migrantRare17–18 cmRegularly Mar
Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceusPassage migrantRare27–30 cmRegularly Aug–Oct
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus variusPassage migrantRare19–22 cmRegularly Feb
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusPassage migrantRare53–65 cmRegularly Mar
Rose-ringed ParakeetPsittacula krameriPassage migrantRare38–42 cmRegularly Oct–Dec
Arctic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusPassage migrantRare41–46 cmRegularly Jan
Northern PintailAnas acutaPassage migrantRare59–76 cmRegularly Dec
Swan GooseAnser cygnoidesPassage migrantRare81–94 cmRegularly Mar
Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolniiScarceRare13–15 cm
Greylag GooseAnser anserScarceRare75–90 cm
Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavoPassage migrantRare100–125 cmRegularly Mar–Apr
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinusPassage migrantRare64–79 cmRegularly Jan
BudgerigarMelopsittacus undulatusScarceRare18–20 cm
CockatielNymphicus hollandicusPassage migrantRare30–33 cmRegularly Feb–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