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 · Oct
Share of all bird records in Albania in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 114, most common first
Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucosSummer visitorCommon18–20 cmRegularly Apr–Jan
Water PipitAnthus spinolettaWinter visitorCommon15–17 cmRegularly Jun–Feb
Common RavenCorvus coraxResidentCommon54–67 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanusResidentCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
DunlinCalidris alpinaWinter visitorCommon16–22 cmRegularly Apr–Feb
RedshankTringa totanusSummer visitorCommon27–29 cmRegularly Jan–Nov
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon19–22 cmRecorded all year
Subalpine WarblerCurruca cantillansPassage migrantCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
Eurasian JayGarrulus glandariusSummer visitorCommon32–35 cmRegularly Apr–Jan
Coal TitPeriparus aterSummer visitorCommon10–12 cmRegularly May–Mar
GreenshankTringa nebulariaWinter visitorCommon30–35 cmRegularly Jul–Apr
Golden OrioleOriolus oriolusSummer visitorCommon22–24 cmRegularly May–Sep
Common TernSterna hirundoSummer visitorCommon31–35 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
JackdawColoeus monedulaSummer visitorCommon34–39 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
Grey PloverPluvialis squatarolaWinter visitorCommon27–30 cmRegularly Aug–May
Northern PintailAnas acutaWinter visitorCommon59–76 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisWinter visitorCommon36–41 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
HoopoeUpupa epopsSummer visitorCommon25–32 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
WhitethroatCurruca communisPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisPassage migrantCommon14–15 cmRegularly Oct–Dec
KestrelFalco tinnunculusResidentCommon32–39 cmRecorded all year
Common ShelduckTadorna tadornaPassage migrantCommon58–67 cmRegularly Oct–Jun
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
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