Rare Birds in Northern Ireland
Our list for Northern Ireland has 10 rare birds recorded regularly there: 1 resident, 1 summer visitor, 3 passage migrants and 5 scarce visitors
All 10, most common first
Leach's Storm-petrelHydrobates leucorhousScarceRare18–21 cmRegularly Sep
Black TernChlidonias nigerScarceRare22–26 cm
Common Reed-warblerAcrocephalus scirpaceusSummer visitorRare13–14 cmRegularly May–Aug
Spotted RedshankTringa erythropusResidentRare29–31 cmRegularly Dec–Apr
Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinusScarceRare46–51 cm
Roseate TernSterna dougalliiPassage migrantRare33–41 cmRegularly Jul
Little StintCalidris minutaPassage migrantRare13–15 cmRegularly Aug
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisScarceRare43–54 cm
Little TernSternula albifronsPassage migrantRare21–25 cmRegularly Jul
Green SandpiperTringa ochropusScarceRare21–24 cm
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: 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