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
WoodpigeonColumba palumbusPassage migrantUncommon40–42 cmRegularly Aug–Dec
Common ShelduckTadorna tadornaScarceUncommon58–67 cm
Jack SnipeLymnocryptes minimusPassage migrantUncommon17–19 cmRegularly Oct–Jan
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisPassage migrantUncommon14–15 cmRegularly May–Dec
Bonelli's EagleAquila fasciataPassage migrantUncommon65–72 cmRegularly Oct–May
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatusPassage migrantUncommon46–51 cmRegularly Oct–Jan
Swan GooseAnser cygnoidesPassage migrantUncommon81–94 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
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