Uncommon Birds in Belfast
Our list for Belfast has 24 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 6 residents, 12 passage migrants and 6 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Belfast in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 24, most common first
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Stonechat 12–13 cm
- Common Redpoll 12–14 cm
- Treecreeper 12–14 cm
- Reed Bunting 14–16 cm
- Rock Pipit 16–18 cm
- Sanderling 18–20 cm
- Curlew Sandpiper 18–23 cm
- Great Spotted Woodpecker 23–26 cm
- Fieldfare 22–27 cm
- Little Gull 25–30 cm
- Golden Plover 26–29 cm
- Greenshank 30–35 cm
- Manx Shearwater 30–38 cm
- Roseate Tern 33–41 cm
- Kittiwake 37–41 cm
- Razorbill 38–43 cm
- Whimbrel 40–46 cm
- Goldeneye 40–51 cm
- Carrion Crow 45–47 cm
- Peregrine Falcon 34–58 cm
- Common Raven 54–67 cm
- Common Pheasant 50–90 cm
- European Shag 65–80 cm
- Northern Gannet 87–100 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