Uncommon Birds in Romania
Our list for Romania has 119 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 13 residents, 48 summer visitors, 22 winter visitors, 35 passage migrants and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Romania in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 119, most common first
Western CapercaillieTetrao urogallusPassage migrantUncommon60–87 cmRegularly Apr–Jul
Eurasian Stone-curlewBurhinus oedicnemusSummer visitorUncommon40–44 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
European ShagGulosus aristotelisPassage migrantUncommon65–80 cmRegularly Sep–May
Golden PloverPluvialis apricariaPassage migrantUncommon26–29 cmRegularly Aug–Feb
Grey PartridgePerdix perdixResidentUncommon28–32 cmRegularly Apr–Feb
Eurasian WoodcockScolopax rusticolaPassage migrantUncommon33–38 cmRegularly Oct–Nov
Moustached WarblerAcrocephalus melanopogonSummer visitorUncommon12–13 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Horned LarkEremophila alpestrisSummer visitorUncommon16–20 cmRegularly May–Dec
Greater FlamingoPhoenicopterus roseusPassage migrantUncommon120–145 cmRegularly May–Jan
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpresPassage migrantUncommon21–24 cmRegularly May–Sep
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisPassage migrantUncommon43–54 cmRegularly Jan
Short-toed TreecreeperCerthia brachydactylaPassage migrantUncommon12–14 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Arctic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusPassage migrantUncommon41–46 cmRegularly May–Oct
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusPassage migrantUncommon40–46 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Woodchat ShrikeLanius senatorPassage migrantUncommon17–19 cmRegularly May–Aug
Common CraneGrus grusSummer visitorUncommon100–130 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiacaPassage migrantUncommon63–73 cmRegularly Oct–May
Cattle EgretArdea ibisPassage migrantUncommon46–56 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
CorncrakeCrex crexPassage migrantUncommon22–30 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
Canada GooseBranta canadensisPassage migrantUncommon76–110 cmRegularly Mar
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinusWinter visitorUncommon64–79 cmRegularly Dec–Feb
Jack SnipeLymnocryptes minimusPassage migrantUncommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisScarceUncommon15–18 cmRegularly Dec
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