Common Birds in Manitoba
Our list for Manitoba has 87 common birds recorded regularly there: 3 residents, 58 summer visitors, 21 winter visitors and 5 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Manitoba in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 87, most common first
Horned LarkEremophila alpestrisWinter visitorCommon16–20 cmRecorded all year
Fox SparrowPasserella iliacaSummer visitorCommon15–19 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Common GrackleQuiscalus quisculaSummer visitorCommon28–34 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatusWinter visitorCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
Pine SiskinSpinus pinusWinter visitorCommon11–14 cmRecorded all year
Clay-colored SparrowSpizella pallidaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Sep
Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglectaSummer visitorCommon16–26 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Sep
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumSummer visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly May–Mar
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensisSummer visitorCommon45–65 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisWinter visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly Oct–Jun
Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubrisSummer visitorCommon7–9 cmRegularly May–Sep
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arboreaPassage migrantCommon14–17 cmRegularly Oct–Jun
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleucaSummer visitorCommon29–40 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Snow GooseAnser caerulescensPassage migrantCommon69–84 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimusSummer visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly May–Sep
Bohemian WaxwingBombycilla garrulusWinter visitorCommon19–23 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusSummer visitorCommon53–65 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
Franklin's GullLeucophaeus pipixcanSummer visitorCommon32–36 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaSummer visitorCommon40–51 cmRecorded all year
Snowy OwlBubo scandiacusWinter visitorCommon52–71 cmRegularly Nov–Mar
Grey PartridgePerdix perdixWinter visitorCommon28–32 cmRegularly Oct–Aug
American RedstartSetophaga ruticillaSummer visitorCommon11–14 cmRegularly May–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