Rare Birds in Tanzania
Our list for Tanzania has 31 rare birds recorded regularly there: 1 resident, 12 summer visitors, 12 passage migrants and 6 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Tanzania in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 31, most common first
Little TernSternula albifronsScarceRare21–25 cm
Eurasian OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegusPassage migrantRare40–45 cmRegularly Oct–Nov
CorncrakeCrex crexPassage migrantRare22–30 cmRegularly Mar
Pacific Golden-PloverPluvialis fulvaScarceRare23–26 cm
ShoebillBalaeniceps rexScarceRare110–140 cm
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatusScarceRare46–51 cm
Grey ParrotPsittacus erithacusScarceRare33–40 cm
Lesser NoddyAnous tenuirostrisScarceRare30–34 cm
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