Common Birds in Bermuda
Our list for Bermuda has 45 common birds recorded regularly there: 14 residents, 3 summer visitors, 16 winter visitors and 12 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Bermuda in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 45, most common first
Great Blue HeronArdea herodiasResidentCommon91–137 cmRecorded all year
American RedstartSetophaga ruticillaWinter visitorCommon11–14 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Palm WarblerSetophaga palmarumWinter visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasWinter visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Roseate TernSterna dougalliiSummer visitorCommon33–41 cmRegularly May–Aug
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleucaWinter visitorCommon29–40 cmRegularly Jul–May
Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotosPassage migrantCommon19–23 cmRegularly Jul–Oct
Eurasian TealAnas creccaWinter visitorCommon34–38 cmRegularly Sep–May
Solitary SandpiperTringa solitariaPassage migrantCommon19–23 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopusPassage migrantCommon18–23 cmRegularly Jul–Oct
Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronataWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisWinter visitorCommon43–54 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citreaPassage migrantCommon13–14 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseusPassage migrantCommon23–32 cmRegularly May–Feb
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podicepsWinter visitorCommon31–38 cmRegularly Sep–May
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusWinter visitorCommon53–65 cmRegularly Sep–May
Sooty ShearwaterArdenna griseaPassage migrantCommon40–51 cmRegularly Apr–Jun
Grey PloverPluvialis squatarolaResidentCommon27–30 cmRecorded all year
MerlinFalco columbariusWinter visitorCommon24–33 cmRegularly Sep–May
White-rumped SandpiperCalidris fuscicollisPassage migrantCommon15–18 cmRegularly Aug–Nov
Cape May WarblerSetophaga tigrinaWinter visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Northern PintailAnas acutaWinter visitorCommon59–76 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
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