Common Birds in Austria
Our list for Austria has 110 common birds recorded regularly there: 56 residents, 35 summer visitors, 17 winter visitors and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Austria in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 110, most common first
Great TitParus majorResidentCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
BlackbirdTurdus merulaResidentCommon23–29 cmRecorded all year
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleusResidentCommon12–12 cmRecorded all year
Carrion CrowCorvus coroneResidentCommon44–51 cmRecorded all year
ChaffinchFringilla coelebsResidentCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos majorResidentCommon23–26 cmRecorded all year
Hooded CrowCorvus cornixResidentCommon44–51 cmRecorded all year
European RobinErithacus rubeculaResidentCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelisResidentCommon12–13 cmRecorded all year
WoodpigeonColumba palumbusResidentCommon40–45 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaeaResidentCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaSummer visitorCommon10–12 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
KestrelFalco tinnunculusResidentCommon32–39 cmRecorded all year
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochrurosSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRecorded all year
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–18 cmRecorded all year
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisSummer visitorCommon19–22 cmRegularly Jan–Nov
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
BuzzardButeo buteoResidentCommon51–57 cmRecorded all year
Rock DoveColumba liviaResidentCommon29–37 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