Common Birds in Canada
Our list for Canada has 74 common birds recorded regularly there: 28 residents, 33 summer visitors, 12 winter visitors and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Canada in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 74, most common first
Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatusSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly May–Oct
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus variusSummer visitorCommon19–22 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Black-throated Green WarblerSetophaga virensSummer visitorCommon11–12 cmRegularly May–Oct
Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnoliaSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataResidentCommon44–51 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