Rare Birds in Mississippi
Our list for Mississippi has 38 rare birds recorded regularly there: 8 residents, 2 summer visitors, 5 winter visitors, 17 passage migrants and 6 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Mississippi in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 38, most common first
Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatusPassage migrantRare18–19 cmRegularly Sep
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinusResidentRare64–79 cmRegularly Mar
Iceland GullLarus glaucoidesPassage migrantRare52–60 cmRegularly Dec
Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmusPassage migrantRare28–32 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Red-throated LoonGavia stellataScarceRare53–69 cm
Golden EagleAquila chrysaetosResidentRare66–102 cmRegularly Jan–Feb
Fulvous Whistling-DuckDendrocygna bicolorScarceRare45–53 cm
Mute SwanCygnus olorResidentRare140–160 cmRegularly Jan–May
Yellow-bellied FlycatcherEmpidonax flaviventrisPassage migrantRare13–15 cmRegularly Sep
Black-throated Blue WarblerSetophaga caerulescensScarceRare11–13 cm
Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglectaResidentRare16–26 cmRegularly Jan–Feb
Swan GooseAnser cygnoidesPassage migrantRare81–94 cmRegularly Mar
Cackling GooseBranta hutchinsiiScarceRare53–76 cm
Greylag GooseAnser anserResidentRare75–90 cmRegularly Dec–Jan
Indian PeafowlPavo cristatusScarceRare86–230 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