Rare Birds in South Yorkshire
Our list for South Yorkshire has 21 rare birds recorded regularly there: 9 residents, 6 passage migrants and 6 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in South Yorkshire in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 21, most common first
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Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Firecrest 9–10 cm
- Marsh Tit 12–13 cm
- Woodlark 15–17 cm
- Common Quail 16–18 cm
- Ruddy Turnstone 21–24 cm
- Little Tern 21–25 cm
- Black Tern 22–26 cm
- Red Knot 23–26 cm
- European Turtle-dove 26–28 cm
- Little Gull 25–30 cm
- Grey Plover 27–30 cm
- Black-necked Grebe 28–34 cm
- Bar-tailed Godwit 37–41 cm
- Greater Scaup 39–56 cm
- Common Scoter 43–54 cm
- Wood Duck 47–54 cm
- Cattle Egret 46–56 cm
- Red-crested Pochard 53–57 cm
- Barnacle Goose 58–70 cm
- Muscovy Duck 66–84 cm
- Indian Peafowl 86–230 cm
Body length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
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