Birds to See in New Brunswick in September
163 bird species on our list for New Brunswick are recorded regularly in September
Of these, the most often recorded are American Crow, American Herring Gull, Blue Jay, Song Sparrow and Great Black-backed Gull. New this month: Pine Siskin, White-crowned Sparrow, Horned Grebe and Greater Scaup and 13 more.
On the move in September
GBIF · SepArriving
At their peak
From New Brunswick’s bird records, 2019–2024: arriving birds are regular this month but not last; leaving birds are regular this month but not next.
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All 163 birds in September
163 birds
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchosResidentCommon41–53 cmRecorded all year · 4.34% in Sep
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusResidentCommon53–65 cmRecorded all year · 3.92% in Sep
Blue JayCyanocitta cristataResidentCommon25–30 cmRecorded all year · 2.92% in Sep
Song SparrowMelospiza melodiaSummer visitorCommon12–17 cmRecorded all year · 2.71% in Sep
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinusResidentCommon64–79 cmRecorded all year · 2.57% in Sep
Great Blue HeronArdea herodiasSummer visitorCommon91–137 cmRegularly Apr–Dec · 1.88% in Sep
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisResidentCommon43–54 cmRecorded all year · 1.83% in Sep
Canada GooseBranta canadensisSummer visitorCommon76–110 cmRegularly Mar–Jan · 1.64% in Sep
Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatusPassage migrantCommon17–19 cmRegularly Jul–Oct · 1.57% in Sep
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusResidentCommon70–102 cmRecorded all year · 1.53% in Sep
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct · 1.47% in Sep
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumSummer visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly May–Feb · 1.45% in Sep
Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronataSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct · 1.44% in Sep
Common RavenCorvus coraxResidentCommon54–67 cmRecorded all year · 1.42% in Sep
EiderSomateria mollissimaResidentCommon50–71 cmRecorded all year · 1.41% in Sep
American Black DuckAnas rubripesResidentCommon54–59 cmRecorded all year · 1.36% in Sep
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year · 1.29% in Sep
Mourning DoveZenaida macrouraResidentCommon23–34 cmRecorded all year · 1.27% in Sep
Northern FlickerColaptes auratusSummer visitorCommon28–31 cmRecorded all year · 1.27% in Sep
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleucaPassage migrantCommon29–40 cmRegularly Apr–Nov · 1.23% in Sep
Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusillaPassage migrantCommon15–18 cmRegularly Jul–Oct · 1.21% in Sep
American RobinTurdus migratoriusResidentCommon20–28 cmRecorded all year · 1.19% in Sep
Black-throated Green WarblerSetophaga virensSummer visitorCommon11–12 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.96% in Sep
Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensisSummer visitorCommon20–24 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.92% in Sep
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescensResidentCommon14–18 cmRecorded all year · 0.91% in Sep
Northern GannetMorus bassanusSummer visitorCommon87–100 cmRegularly Apr–Nov · 0.87% in Sep
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year · 0.85% in Sep
Blue-headed VireoVireo solitariusSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.78% in Sep
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipesPassage migrantCommon23–27 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.77% in Sep
Eurasian TealAnas creccaSummer visitorCommon34–38 cmRecorded all year · 0.76% in Sep
Hairy WoodpeckerLeuconotopicus villosusWinter visitorCommon18–26 cmRecorded all year · 0.73% in Sep
Common LoonGavia immerResidentCommon66–91 cmRecorded all year · 0.72% in Sep
Rock DoveColumba liviaResidentCommon29–37 cmRecorded all year · 0.72% in Sep
SanderlingCalidris albaPassage migrantCommon18–20 cmRegularly Jul–Nov · 0.72% in Sep
Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubrisSummer visitorCommon7–9 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.69% in Sep
Grey PloverPluvialis squatarolaSummer visitorCommon27–30 cmRegularly May–Nov · 0.69% in Sep
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphiaSummer visitorCommon28–38 cmRegularly May–Dec · 0.68% in Sep
Black GuillemotCepphus grylleResidentCommon30–32 cmRecorded all year · 0.67% in Sep
Least SandpiperCalidris minutillaPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.66% in Sep
MerlinFalco columbariusSummer visitorCommon24–33 cmRecorded all year · 0.66% in Sep
Blackpoll WarblerSetophaga striataPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.65% in Sep
Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnoliaSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.56% in Sep
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgianaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year · 0.55% in Sep
Common GrackleQuiscalus quisculaSummer visitorCommon28–34 cmRegularly Mar–Jan · 0.55% in Sep
OspreyPandion haliaetusSummer visitorCommon54–58 cmRegularly Apr–Oct · 0.50% in Sep
Turkey VultureCathartes auraSummer visitorCommon62–81 cmRecorded all year · 0.49% in Sep
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerinaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Jan · 0.49% in Sep
American RedstartSetophaga ruticillaSummer visitorCommon11–14 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.48% in Sep
Wood DuckAix sponsaSummer visitorCommon47–54 cmRecorded all year · 0.47% in Sep
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusWinter visitorUncommon52–64 cmRecorded all year · 0.47% in Sep
Great ShearwaterArdenna gravisPassage migrantCommon43–51 cmRegularly Jul–Sep · 0.45% in Sep
Common TernSterna hirundoSummer visitorCommon31–35 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.44% in Sep
Atlantic PuffinFratercula arcticaPassage migrantUncommon28–34 cmRegularly Jun–Sep · 0.41% in Sep
Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatusSummer visitorCommon14–18 cmRegularly Apr–Feb · 0.38% in Sep
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalisWinter visitorCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year · 0.37% in Sep
Northern Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestivaSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.37% in Sep
Peregrine FalconFalco peregrinusWinter visitorUncommon34–58 cmRecorded all year · 0.36% in Sep
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendulaSummer visitorCommon9–11 cmRegularly Apr–Jan · 0.33% in Sep
Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatusWinter visitorUncommon24–34 cmRecorded all year · 0.32% in Sep
KittiwakeRissa tridactylaWinter visitorUncommon37–41 cmRegularly May–Feb · 0.32% in Sep
Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillataWinter visitorCommon48–60 cmRecorded all year · 0.32% in Sep
Palm WarblerSetophaga palmarumSummer visitorUncommon12–14 cmRegularly Apr–Oct · 0.31% in Sep
Nashville WarblerLeiothlypis ruficapillaSummer visitorUncommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.31% in Sep
Bay-breasted WarblerSetophaga castaneaSummer visitorUncommon14–14 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.30% in Sep
Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceusSummer visitorCommon17–23 cmRegularly Mar–Nov · 0.30% in Sep
White-rumped SandpiperCalidris fuscicollisPassage migrantUncommon15–18 cmRegularly Jul–Nov · 0.30% in Sep
RazorbillAlca tordaResidentUncommon38–43 cmRecorded all year · 0.29% in Sep
Cape May WarblerSetophaga tigrinaSummer visitorUncommon12–14 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.27% in Sep
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboWinter visitorUncommon80–100 cmRecorded all year · 0.27% in Sep
White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensisWinter visitorCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year · 0.27% in Sep
Ruddy TurnstoneArenaria interpresPassage migrantUncommon21–24 cmRegularly Jul–Nov · 0.27% in Sep
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatusResidentCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year · 0.27% in Sep
Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatusPassage migrantUncommon18–19 cmRegularly Jul–Sep · 0.27% in Sep
Pomarine JaegerStercorarius pomarinusPassage migrantUncommon46–51 cmRegularly Aug–Sep · 0.25% in Sep
GadwallMareca streperaSummer visitorCommon46–56 cmRecorded all year · 0.25% in Sep
Chestnut-sided WarblerSetophaga pensylvanicaSummer visitorCommon10–14 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.24% in Sep
Philadelphia VireoVireo philadelphicusSummer visitorUncommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.23% in Sep
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podicepsSummer visitorUncommon31–38 cmRegularly Apr–Nov · 0.22% in Sep
Leach's Storm-petrelHydrobates leucorhousSummer visitorUncommon18–21 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.22% in Sep
Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseusPassage migrantCommon23–32 cmRegularly Jul–Oct · 0.22% in Sep
Common PheasantPhasianus colchicusResidentCommon50–90 cmRecorded all year · 0.22% in Sep
Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterusSummer visitorUncommon34–44 cmRegularly Apr–Oct · 0.21% in Sep
Solitary SandpiperTringa solitariaPassage migrantUncommon19–23 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.21% in Sep
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataSummer visitorCommon44–51 cmRegularly Mar–Dec · 0.21% in Sep
DunlinCalidris alpinaPassage migrantUncommon16–22 cmRegularly Aug–Nov · 0.21% in Sep
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus variusSummer visitorCommon19–22 cmRegularly Apr–Oct · 0.21% in Sep
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatusSummer visitorCommon40–49 cmRegularly Mar–Jan · 0.20% in Sep
Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimusSummer visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.20% in Sep
Pectoral SandpiperCalidris melanotosPassage migrantUncommon19–23 cmRegularly Aug–Oct · 0.19% in Sep
Grey PhalaropePhalaropus fulicariusPassage migrantUncommon20–22 cmRegularly Jul–Sep · 0.18% in Sep
Red-throated LoonGavia stellataWinter visitorCommon53–69 cmRegularly Aug–Jun · 0.17% in Sep
FulmarFulmarus glacialisPassage migrantUncommon45–50 cmRegularly Jul–Oct · 0.16% in Sep
Great White EgretArdea albaSummer visitorUncommon80–104 cmRegularly Apr–Oct · 0.15% in Sep
Swainson's ThrushCatharus ustulatusSummer visitorCommon16–20 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.15% in Sep
Common MerganserMergus merganserWinter visitorCommon58–68 cmRecorded all year · 0.14% in Sep
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusPassage migrantUncommon40–46 cmRegularly Jul–Sep · 0.14% in Sep
Red-necked GrebePodiceps grisegenaWinter visitorUncommon40–50 cmRegularly Aug–Apr · 0.13% in Sep
Sooty ShearwaterArdenna griseaPassage migrantUncommon40–51 cmRegularly Jun–Sep · 0.13% in Sep
Tennessee WarblerLeiothlypis peregrinaSummer visitorUncommon10–13 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.13% in Sep
OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapillaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.12% in Sep
American Golden-PloverPluvialis dominicaPassage migrantUncommon24–28 cmRegularly Aug–Nov · 0.12% in Sep
Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolniiResidentUncommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Feb · 0.12% in Sep
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serratorWinter visitorCommon52–58 cmRecorded all year · 0.12% in Sep
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensisWinter visitorUncommon45–65 cmRecorded all year · 0.12% in Sep
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialisSummer visitorUncommon16–21 cmRegularly Mar–Jan · 0.11% in Sep
Red KnotCalidris canutusPassage migrantUncommon23–26 cmRegularly Jun–Nov · 0.11% in Sep
Black-throated Blue WarblerSetophaga caerulescensSummer visitorUncommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.10% in Sep
Ruffed GrouseBonasa umbellusResidentUncommon41–50 cmRecorded all year · 0.09% in Sep
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbulaSummer visitorUncommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Jan · 0.09% in Sep
Northern PintailAnas acutaWinter visitorUncommon59–76 cmRecorded all year · 0.08% in Sep
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaWinter visitorCommon40–51 cmRecorded all year · 0.08% in Sep
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Sep · 0.07% in Sep
Red CrossbillLoxia curvirostraResidentUncommon15–17 cmRecorded all year · 0.06% in Sep
Horned LarkEremophila alpestrisWinter visitorUncommon16–20 cmRegularly Sep–Apr · 0.06% in Sep
Pine SiskinSpinus pinusWinter visitorCommon11–14 cmRegularly Sep–Jul · 0.06% in Sep
Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavoResidentUncommon100–125 cmRecorded all year · 0.06% in Sep
Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianusSummer visitorUncommon18–22 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.06% in Sep
Stilt SandpiperCalidris himantopusPassage migrantUncommon18–23 cmRegularly Aug–Oct · 0.05% in Sep
Northern WaterthrushParkesia noveboracensisSummer visitorUncommon12–15 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.05% in Sep
Black-crowned Night-heronNycticorax nycticoraxSummer visitorUncommon58–65 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.05% in Sep
Manx ShearwaterPuffinus puffinusPassage migrantUncommon30–38 cmRegularly Jun–Sep · 0.05% in Sep
BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorusSummer visitorUncommon16–20 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.04% in Sep
White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrysPassage migrantUncommon15–16 cmRegularly May–Dec · 0.04% in Sep
Baird's SandpiperCalidris bairdiiPassage migrantRare14–17 cmRegularly Aug–Sep · 0.04% in Sep
Arctic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusPassage migrantRare41–46 cmRegularly Jul–Oct · 0.04% in Sep
American BitternBotaurus lentiginosusSummer visitorUncommon58–85 cmRegularly Apr–Oct · 0.04% in Sep
WilletTringa semipalmataSummer visitorUncommon33–41 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.04% in Sep
House FinchHaemorhous mexicanusWinter visitorCommon13–15 cmRecorded all year · 0.03% in Sep
Yellow-bellied FlycatcherEmpidonax flaviventrisSummer visitorUncommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.03% in Sep
Hudsonian GodwitLimosa haemasticaPassage migrantUncommon36–42 cmRegularly Jul–Oct · 0.03% in Sep
Barred OwlStrix variaResidentUncommon43–50 cmRecorded all year · 0.03% in Sep
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentUncommon14–17 cmRecorded all year · 0.03% in Sep
Little GullHydrocoloeus minutusPassage migrantUncommon25–30 cmRegularly Jul–Nov · 0.03% in Sep
Mourning WarblerGeothlypis philadelphiaSummer visitorUncommon10–15 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.03% in Sep
Sandhill CraneAntigone canadensisSummer visitorUncommon80–122 cmRegularly Mar–Oct · 0.03% in Sep
Great Horned OwlBubo virginianusWinter visitorUncommon46–63 cmRecorded all year · 0.03% in Sep
Horned GrebePodiceps auritusWinter visitorUncommon31–38 cmRegularly Sep–Apr · 0.03% in Sep
Lark SparrowChondestes grammacusPassage migrantRare15–17 cmRegularly Aug–Oct · 0.03% in Sep
Long-billed DowitcherLimnodromus scolopaceusPassage migrantUncommon27–30 cmRegularly Sep–Oct · 0.02% in Sep
Orange-crowned WarblerLeiothlypis celataPassage migrantUncommon11–14 cmRegularly Sep–Jan · 0.02% in Sep
Sabine's GullXema sabiniPassage migrantRare27–33 cmRegularly Aug–Sep · 0.02% in Sep
Greater ScaupAythya marilaWinter visitorUncommon39–56 cmRegularly Sep–May · 0.02% in Sep
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusPassage migrantRare38–44 cmRegularly Mar–Dec · 0.02% in Sep
Scarlet TanagerPiranga olivaceaSummer visitorRare16–19 cmRegularly May–Oct · 0.02% in Sep
Black-backed WoodpeckerPicoides arcticusResidentRare21–24 cmRecorded all year · 0.02% in Sep
Black-billed CuckooCoccyzus erythropthalmusSummer visitorUncommon28–32 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.02% in Sep
Arctic TernSterna paradisaeaPassage migrantUncommon33–39 cmRegularly Jun–Sep · 0.02% in Sep
DickcisselSpiza americanaResidentUncommon14–16 cmRegularly Sep–Feb · 0.02% in Sep
Clay-colored SparrowSpizella pallidaPassage migrantUncommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Jan · 0.02% in Sep
Piping PloverCharadrius melodusSummer visitorUncommon17–18 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.02% in Sep
Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensisSummer visitorUncommon35–43 cmRegularly Mar–Dec · 0.01% in Sep
Black TernChlidonias nigerSummer visitorRare22–26 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.01% in Sep
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopePassage migrantUncommon42–51 cmRegularly Mar–Nov · 0.01% in Sep
King EiderSomateria spectabilisResidentRare46–64 cmRegularly Sep–Apr · 0.01% in Sep
Virginia RailRallus limicolaSummer visitorUncommon20–27 cmRegularly Apr–Sep · 0.01% in Sep
Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottosResidentUncommon21–26 cmRegularly Apr–Feb · 0.01% in Sep
Buff-breasted SandpiperCalidris subruficollisPassage migrantRare18–20 cmRegularly Sep · 0.01% in Sep
White-winged DoveZenaida asiaticaPassage migrantRare27–30 cmRegularly Sep · 0.01% in Sep
Lapland LongspurCalcarius lapponicusWinter visitorUncommon15–16 cmRegularly Sep–Apr · 0.01% in Sep
Marsh WrenCistothorus palustrisSummer visitorUncommon10–14 cmRegularly May–Dec · 0.01% in Sep
Wilson's PhalaropePhalaropus tricolorPassage migrantRare22–24 cmRegularly May–Sep · 0.01% in Sep
Western KingbirdTyrannus verticalisPassage migrantUncommon20–24 cmRegularly Sep · 0.00% in Sep
Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineusSummer visitorRare13–17 cmRegularly Apr–Sep · 0.00% in 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