Uncommon Birds in Sri Lanka
Our list for Sri Lanka has 51 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 14 residents, 34 winter visitors and 3 passage migrants
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 51, most common first
Greater FlamingoPhoenicopterus roseusWinter visitorUncommon120–145 cmRegularly Dec–May
Bar-tailed GodwitLimosa lapponicaWinter visitorUncommon37–41 cmRegularly Aug–May
Long-tailed JaegerStercorarius longicaudusPassage migrantUncommon48–58 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Orange-headed ThrushGeokichla citrinaWinter visitorUncommon20–23 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
OspreyPandion haliaetusWinter visitorUncommon54–58 cmRegularly Jun–Apr
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