Uncommon Birds in Saudi Arabia
Our list for Saudi Arabia has 76 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 6 residents, 3 summer visitors, 25 winter visitors, 40 passage migrants and 2 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Saudi Arabia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 76, most common first
Oriental Honey-buzzardPernis ptilorhynchusWinter visitorUncommon52–68 cmRegularly Jul–May
House MartinDelichon urbicumPassage migrantUncommon13–15 cmRegularly Feb–Oct
Little BitternIxobrychus minutusResidentUncommon33–38 cmRecorded all year
European Turtle-doveStreptopelia turturPassage migrantUncommon26–28 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusWinter visitorUncommon28–31 cmRegularly Nov–Feb
Montagu's HarrierCircus pygargusPassage migrantUncommon43–47 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Little OwlAthene noctuaSummer visitorUncommon21–23 cmRegularly Feb–Dec
Rufous-tailed Rock-thrushMonticola saxatilisPassage migrantUncommon16–19 cmRegularly Oct–May
Garden WarblerSylvia borinPassage migrantUncommon14–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
MallardAnas platyrhynchosWinter visitorUncommon50–65 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Desert FinchRhodospiza obsoletaWinter visitorUncommon13–14 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Northern PintailAnas acutaWinter visitorUncommon59–76 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Eurasian TealAnas creccaWinter visitorUncommon34–38 cmRegularly Sep–Feb
Blue Rock-thrushMonticola solitariusWinter visitorUncommon21–23 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Booted EagleHieraaetus pennatusPassage migrantUncommon42–51 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenusPassage migrantUncommon12–13 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
European Honey-buzzardPernis apivorusWinter visitorUncommon52–60 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Egyptian VultureNeophron percnopterusPassage migrantUncommon55–65 cmRegularly Oct–Feb
NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchosPassage migrantUncommon15–17 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
CorncrakeCrex crexPassage migrantUncommon22–30 cmRegularly May–Oct
Marsh WarblerAcrocephalus palustrisPassage migrantUncommon13–14 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Spotted RedshankTringa erythropusWinter visitorUncommon29–31 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Black-necked GrebePodiceps nigricollisPassage migrantUncommon28–34 cmRegularly Sep–Jan
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