Uncommon Birds in North Dakota
Our list for North Dakota has 78 uncommon birds recorded regularly there: 3 residents, 33 summer visitors, 9 winter visitors and 33 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in North Dakota in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 78, most common first
Varied ThrushIxoreus naeviusWinter visitorUncommon20–26 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
Cape May WarblerSetophaga tigrinaPassage migrantUncommon12–14 cmRegularly May–Sep
Piping PloverCharadrius melodusSummer visitorUncommon17–18 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
KittiwakeRissa tridactylaResidentUncommon37–41 cmRegularly Nov
Hudsonian GodwitLimosa haemasticaSummer visitorUncommon36–42 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Yellow-bellied FlycatcherEmpidonax flaviventrisPassage migrantUncommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Sep
Buff-breasted SandpiperCalidris subruficollisPassage migrantUncommon18–20 cmRegularly May–Sep
Pacific LoonGavia pacificaResidentUncommon58–74 cmRegularly Oct–Nov
Sabine's GullXema sabiniPassage migrantUncommon27–33 cmRegularly Sep–Oct
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