Rare Birds in Kentucky
Our list for Kentucky has 51 rare birds recorded regularly there: 13 residents, 5 summer visitors, 6 winter visitors, 24 passage migrants and 3 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Kentucky in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 51, most common first
Upland SandpiperBartramia longicaudaPassage migrantRare28–32 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
Marbled GodwitLimosa fedoaResidentRare40–50 cmRegularly Apr
Common PheasantPhasianus colchicusResidentRare50–90 cmRegularly May
Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellusResidentRare41–50 cmRegularly Apr–May
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusResidentRare40–46 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