Common Birds in Ontario
Our list for Ontario has 81 common birds recorded regularly there: 21 residents, 36 summer visitors, 20 winter visitors and 4 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Ontario in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 81, most common first
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchosResidentCommon41–53 cmRecorded all year
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Canada GooseBranta canadensisResidentCommon76–110 cmRecorded all year
American RobinTurdus migratoriusResidentCommon20–28 cmRecorded all year
Blue JayCyanocitta cristataResidentCommon25–30 cmRecorded all year
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescensResidentCommon14–18 cmRecorded all year
Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceusSummer visitorCommon17–23 cmRegularly Feb–Nov
Song SparrowMelospiza melodiaSummer visitorCommon12–17 cmRecorded all year
Mourning DoveZenaida macrouraResidentCommon23–34 cmRecorded all year
White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensisWinter visitorCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisResidentCommon43–54 cmRecorded all year
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Common GrackleQuiscalus quisculaSummer visitorCommon28–34 cmRegularly Feb–Nov
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
Hairy WoodpeckerLeuconotopicus villosusResidentCommon18–26 cmRecorded all year
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusWinter visitorCommon53–65 cmRecorded all year
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arboreaWinter visitorCommon14–17 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaWinter visitorCommon40–51 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Northern Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestivaSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumSummer visitorCommon15–18 cmRecorded all year
Northern FlickerColaptes auratusSummer visitorCommon28–31 cmRecorded all year
Turkey VultureCathartes auraSummer visitorCommon62–81 cmRegularly Feb–Dec
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