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
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipesSummer visitorCommon23–27 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendulaPassage migrantCommon9–11 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Rough-legged HawkButeo lagopusWinter visitorCommon46–59 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensisSummer visitorCommon20–24 cmRegularly May–Sep
MerlinFalco columbariusResidentCommon24–33 cmRecorded all year
Cackling GooseBranta hutchinsiiPassage migrantCommon53–76 cmRegularly Sep–May
Wood DuckAix sponsaSummer visitorCommon47–54 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Evening GrosbeakHesperiphona vespertinaWinter visitorCommon16–22 cmRegularly Oct–Jun
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataSummer visitorCommon44–51 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus variusSummer visitorCommon19–22 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphiaSummer visitorCommon28–38 cmRegularly May–Nov
Swainson's ThrushCatharus ustulatusSummer visitorCommon16–20 cmRegularly May–Oct
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbulaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly May–Sep
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatusSummer visitorCommon40–49 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Sandhill CraneAntigone canadensisSummer visitorCommon80–122 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatusSummer visitorCommon14–18 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Palm WarblerSetophaga palmarumPassage migrantCommon12–14 cmRegularly May–Oct
Tennessee WarblerLeiothlypis peregrinaSummer visitorCommon10–13 cmRegularly May–Sep
Marsh WrenCistothorus palustrisSummer visitorCommon10–14 cmRegularly May–Oct
Turkey VultureCathartes auraSummer visitorCommon62–81 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
GadwallMareca streperaSummer visitorCommon46–56 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrysSummer visitorCommon15–16 cmRegularly May–Oct
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