Rare Birds in United States
Our list for United States has 103 rare birds recorded regularly there: 39 residents, 30 summer visitors, 23 winter visitors, 9 passage migrants and 2 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in United States in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 103, most common first
CuckooCuculus canorusScarceRare32–34 cm
Tundra Bean GooseAnser serrirostrisPassage migrantRare66–84 cmRegularly Nov–May
Whooper SwanCygnus cygnusWinter visitorRare140–165 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Common GullLarus canusWinter visitorRare40–46 cmRegularly Dec–Mar
Curlew SandpiperCalidris ferrugineaPassage migrantRare18–23 cmRegularly May–Dec
White-winged TernChlidonias leucopterusPassage migrantRare20–27 cmRegularly May
Ferruginous Pygmy-owlGlaucidium brasilianumWinter visitorRare15–19 cmRegularly Nov–Jun
BudgerigarMelopsittacus undulatusSummer visitorRare18–20 cmRecorded all year
BramblingFringilla montifringillaWinter visitorRare14–16 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Black SwanCygnus atratusResidentRare110–142 cmRecorded all year
GarganeySpatula querquedulaWinter visitorRare37–41 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
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