Common Birds in Albania
Our list for Albania has 114 common birds recorded regularly there: 30 residents, 36 summer visitors, 29 winter visitors and 19 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Albania in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 114, most common first
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–18 cmRecorded all year
MagpiePica picaResidentCommon44–46 cmRecorded all year
European RobinErithacus rubeculaWinter visitorCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
Hooded CrowCorvus cornixResidentCommon44–51 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoResidentCommon31–33 cmRecorded all year
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusResidentCommon38–44 cmRecorded all year
ChaffinchFringilla coelebsResidentCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochrurosWinter visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Jun–Apr
Great TitParus majorResidentCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
Little EgretEgretta garzettaResidentCommon55–65 cmRecorded all year
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboResidentCommon80–100 cmRecorded all year
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaWinter visitorCommon10–12 cmRecorded all year
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaResidentCommon13–15 cmRecorded all year
European Bee-eaterMerops apiasterSummer visitorCommon27–29 cmRegularly May–Sep
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
Common KingfisherAlcedo atthisWinter visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly Jul–Mar
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaResidentCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
CootFulica atraWinter visitorCommon36–42 cmRecorded all year
European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelisResidentCommon12–13 cmRecorded all year
Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striataSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly May–Oct
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatusResidentCommon46–51 cmRecorded all year
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