Rare Birds in Nevada
Our list for Nevada has 56 rare birds recorded regularly there: 16 residents, 6 summer visitors, 7 winter visitors, 20 passage migrants and 7 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Nevada in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 56, most common first
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpresScarceRare21–24 cm
Greylag GooseAnser anserResidentRare75–90 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Painted BuntingPasserina cirisPassage migrantRare12–14 cmRegularly Aug–Sep
Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicusResidentRare15–16 cmRegularly Oct–Feb
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusResidentRare40–46 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
Black-backed WoodpeckerPicoides arcticusResidentRare21–24 cmRegularly Jun–Jul
Purple MartinProgne subisPassage migrantRare18–20 cmRegularly May–Aug
Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellusScarceRare48–66 cm
Arctic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusScarceRare41–46 cm
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbulaScarceRare17–19 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