Rare Birds in Florida
Our list for Florida has 79 rare birds recorded regularly there: 12 residents, 4 summer visitors, 33 winter visitors, 27 passage migrants and 3 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Florida in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 79, most common first
Red-throated LoonGavia stellataWinter visitorRare53–69 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
Bar-headed GooseAnser indicusScarceRare68–78 cmRegularly Oct–Dec
Pacific LoonGavia pacificaWinter visitorRare58–74 cmRegularly Dec–Jun
Horned LarkEremophila alpestrisWinter visitorRare16–20 cmRegularly Dec–May
Ruddy ShelduckTadorna ferrugineaWinter visitorRare58–70 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Fox SparrowPasserella iliacaPassage migrantRare15–19 cmRegularly Jan–Feb
Mourning WarblerGeothlypis philadelphiaPassage migrantRare10–15 cmRegularly Sep–Oct
CockatielNymphicus hollandicusResidentRare30–33 cmRecorded all year
Common PheasantPhasianus colchicusWinter visitorRare50–90 cmRegularly Oct–May
Trumpeter SwanCygnus buccinatorWinter visitorRare139–157 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
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