Rare Birds in Taiwan
Our list for Taiwan has 52 rare birds recorded regularly there: 2 residents, 20 winter visitors, 26 passage migrants and 4 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Taiwan in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 52, most common first
Monk ParakeetMyiopsitta monachusPassage migrantRare29–31 cmRegularly May–Jan
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisScarceRare14–15 cm
Short-eared OwlAsio flammeusPassage migrantRare34–43 cmRegularly Apr
Common MerganserMergus merganserPassage migrantRare58–68 cmRegularly Dec
KittiwakeRissa tridactylaPassage migrantRare37–41 cmRegularly Feb
Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavoPassage migrantRare100–125 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