Uncommon Birds in Carmarthenshire
Our list for Carmarthenshire has 61 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 12 residents, 6 summer visitors, 4 winter visitors, 26 passage migrants and 13 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Carmarthenshire in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 61, most common first
AvocetRecurvirostra avosettaScarceUncommon42–45 cm
Barn OwlTyto albaScarceUncommon33–39 cm
Hen HarrierCircus cyaneusPassage migrantUncommon41–52 cmRegularly Dec–Jan
Grasshopper WarblerLocustella naeviaPassage migrantUncommon12–13 cmRegularly Apr
FirecrestRegulus ignicapillaPassage migrantUncommon9–10 cmRegularly Oct–Feb
Mandarin DuckAix galericulataScarceUncommon41–49 cm
Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochrurosScarceUncommon13–15 cmRegularly Nov
KittiwakeRissa tridactylaPassage migrantUncommon37–41 cmRegularly Apr
YellowhammerEmberiza citrinellaScarceUncommon16–17 cm
Willow TitPoecile montanusScarceUncommon11–12 cm
Western Marsh-harrierCircus aeruginosusResidentUncommon48–56 cmRegularly Aug
Brent GooseBranta berniclaPassage migrantUncommon55–66 cmRegularly Nov
Marsh TitPoecile palustrisResidentUncommon12–13 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
NightjarCaprimulgus europaeusScarceUncommon24–28 cm
Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchusScarceUncommon60–75 cm
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