Uncommon Birds in Orkney Islands
Our list for Orkney Islands has 53 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 4 residents, 7 summer visitors, 36 passage migrants and 6 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Orkney Islands in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 53, most common first
Common Reed-warblerAcrocephalus scirpaceusPassage migrantUncommon13–14 cmRegularly Sep–Oct
Leach's Storm-petrelHydrobates leucorhousPassage migrantUncommon18–21 cmRegularly Jul
Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinusPassage migrantUncommon46–51 cmRegularly Sep–Oct
Brent GooseBranta berniclaPassage migrantUncommon55–66 cmRegularly Sep
Common QuailCoturnix coturnixScarceUncommon16–18 cm
OspreyPandion haliaetusPassage migrantUncommon54–58 cmRegularly May–Jun
Western Marsh-harrierCircus aeruginosusPassage migrantUncommon48–56 cmRegularly May
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