Uncommon Birds in Scotland
Our list for Scotland has 96 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 41 residents, 24 summer visitors, 26 winter visitors and 5 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Scotland in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 96, most common first
Barn OwlTyto albaResidentUncommon33–39 cmRecorded all year
HawfinchCoccothraustes coccothraustesWinter visitorUncommon17–18 cmRegularly Sep–May
Western Marsh-harrierCircus aeruginosusSummer visitorUncommon48–56 cmRecorded all year
Great White EgretArdea albaWinter visitorUncommon80–104 cmRecorded all year
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