Rare Birds in Leicestershire
Our list for Leicestershire has 32 rare birds recorded regularly there: 11 residents, 11 passage migrants and 10 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Leicestershire in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 32, most common first
Short-eared OwlAsio flammeusScarceRare34–43 cm
European Pied FlycatcherFicedula hypoleucaScarceRare12–14 cm
Wood WarblerPhylloscopus sibilatrixScarceRare11–13 cm
Glaucous GullLarus hyperboreusScarceRare62–68 cmRegularly Jan
Iceland GullLarus glaucoidesScarceRare52–60 cmRegularly Jan
MerlinFalco columbariusScarceRare24–33 cmRegularly Jan
Muscovy DuckCairina moschataScarceRare66–84 cm
Arctic TernSterna paradisaeaScarceRare33–39 cmRegularly Apr
RuffCalidris pugnaxScarceRare20–32 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