Rare Birds in Sri Lanka
Our list for Sri Lanka has 24 rare birds recorded regularly there: 1 resident, 1 summer visitor, 10 winter visitors, 7 passage migrants and 5 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Sri Lanka in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 24, most common first
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Lesser Whitethroat 11–13 cm
- Eurasian Tree Sparrow 13–14 cm
- Wryneck 16–18 cm
- Oriental Scops-owl 16–20 cm
- Red-necked Phalarope 18–19 cm
- Sanderling 18–20 cm
- Sharp-tailed Sandpiper 17–22 cm
- Blue Rock-thrush 21–23 cm
- Red Knot 23–26 cm
- Common Snipe 25–27 cm
- European Bee-eater 27–29 cm
- Lesser Noddy 30–34 cm
- Eurasian Teal 34–38 cm
- Roseate Tern 33–41 cm
- Sandwich Tern 36–41 cm
- Coot 36–42 cm
- Eurasian Oystercatcher 40–45 cm
- Avocet 42–45 cm
- Montagu's Harrier 43–47 cm
- Sooty Shearwater 40–51 cm
- Western Marsh-harrier 48–56 cm
- Buzzard 51–57 cm
- European Honey-buzzard 52–60 cm
- Muscovy Duck 66–84 cm
Body length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
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