Rare Birds in South Carolina
Our list for South Carolina has 58 rare birds recorded regularly there: 4 residents, 2 summer visitors, 18 winter visitors, 25 passage migrants and 9 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in South Carolina in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 58, most common first
Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmusPassage migrantRare28–32 cmRegularly May–Oct
Common PheasantPhasianus colchicusResidentRare50–90 cmRegularly Mar
Mourning WarblerGeothlypis philadelphiaPassage migrantRare10–15 cmRegularly Sep
Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicusScarceRare15–16 cmRegularly Nov
Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinusPassage migrantRare46–51 cmRegularly Sep
Willow FlycatcherEmpidonax trailliiScarceRare13–17 cmRegularly Aug–Sep
KittiwakeRissa tridactylaScarceRare37–41 cmRegularly Nov
Great ShearwaterArdenna gravisPassage migrantRare43–51 cmRegularly Jun–Jul
Roseate TernSterna dougalliiPassage migrantRare33–41 cmRegularly Jul
Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorumPassage migrantRare13–17 cmRegularly Sep
Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegenaScarceRare40–50 cm
RazorbillAlca tordaPassage migrantRare38–43 cmRegularly Jan
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