Rare Birds in Staffordshire
Our list for Staffordshire has 24 rare birds recorded regularly there: 9 residents, 7 passage migrants and 8 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Staffordshire in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 24, most common first
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Black Redstart 13–15 cm
- Temminck's Stint 13–15 cm
- Lesser Spotted Woodpecker 14–16 cm
- Woodlark 15–17 cm
- Common Quail 16–18 cm
- Corn Bunting 16–19 cm
- Curlew Sandpiper 18–23 cm
- Little Tern 21–25 cm
- Great Grey Shrike 22–26 cm
- Red Knot 23–26 cm
- Grey Plover 27–30 cm
- Short-eared Owl 34–43 cm
- Sandwich Tern 36–41 cm
- Bar-tailed Godwit 37–41 cm
- Kittiwake 37–41 cm
- Smew 38–44 cm
- Hen Harrier 41–52 cm
- Common Scoter 43–54 cm
- Red-crested Pochard 53–57 cm
- Iceland Gull 52–60 cm
- Barnacle Goose 58–70 cm
- Ruddy Shelduck 58–70 cm
- Bar-headed Goose 68–78 cm
- Muscovy Duck 66–84 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