Rare Birds in Zambia
Our list for Zambia has 24 rare birds recorded regularly there: 2 summer visitors, 1 winter visitor, 16 passage migrants and 5 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Zambia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 24, most common first
Smallest to largest
Length, cm- Whinchat 12–14 cm
- Common Quail 16–18 cm
- Sanderling 18–20 cm
- Curlew Sandpiper 18–23 cm
- Alpine Swift 20–23 cm
- Green Sandpiper 21–24 cm
- Ruddy Turnstone 21–24 cm
- Nightjar 24–28 cm
- Corncrake 22–30 cm
- Cape Starling 25–28 cm
- Grey Plover 27–30 cm
- Cuckoo 32–34 cm
- Gull-billed Tern 33–42 cm
- Bar-tailed Godwit 37–41 cm
- Black-tailed Godwit 40–44 cm
- Montagu's Harrier 43–47 cm
- Peregrine Falcon 34–58 cm
- Booted Eagle 42–51 cm
- Curlew 50–60 cm
- Lesser Black-backed Gull 52–64 cm
- Eurasian Bittern 69–81 cm
- Shoebill 110–140 cm
- Greater Flamingo 120–145 cm
- Common Ostrich 210–275 cm
Body length, bill to tail. Rare birds in grey.
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