Rare Birds in Sweden
Our list for Sweden has 51 rare birds recorded regularly there: 3 residents, 12 summer visitors, 3 winter visitors, 28 passage migrants and 5 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Sweden in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 51, most common first
Ruddy ShelduckTadorna ferrugineaPassage migrantRare58–70 cmRegularly May–Aug
Kentish PloverCharadrius alexandrinusPassage migrantRare15–17 cmRegularly Apr–May
Black SwanCygnus atratusPassage migrantRare110–142 cmRegularly Jun–Sep
Sabine's GullXema sabiniScarceRare27–33 cmRegularly Oct
Woodchat ShrikeLanius senatorScarceRare17–19 cmRegularly May
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