Common Birds in New Brunswick
Our list for New Brunswick has 84 common birds recorded regularly there: 19 residents, 40 summer visitors, 16 winter visitors and 9 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in New Brunswick in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 84, most common first
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisWinter visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
SanderlingCalidris albaPassage migrantCommon18–20 cmRegularly Jul–Nov
Swainson's ThrushCatharus ustulatusSummer visitorCommon16–20 cmRegularly May–Sep
Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillataWinter visitorCommon48–60 cmRecorded all year
GadwallMareca streperaSummer visitorCommon46–56 cmRecorded all year
MerlinFalco columbariusSummer visitorCommon24–33 cmRecorded all year
Blackpoll WarblerSetophaga striataPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Oct
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Great ShearwaterArdenna gravisPassage migrantCommon43–51 cmRegularly Jul–Sep
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatusResidentCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
House FinchHaemorhous mexicanusWinter visitorCommon13–15 cmRecorded all year
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus variusSummer visitorCommon19–22 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimusSummer visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly May–Sep
Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseusPassage migrantCommon23–32 cmRegularly Jul–Oct
Wood DuckAix sponsaSummer visitorCommon47–54 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