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 · Oct
Share of all bird records in Ontario in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 81, most common first
Trumpeter SwanCygnus buccinatorResidentCommon139–157 cmRecorded all year
Swainson's ThrushCatharus ustulatusSummer visitorCommon16–20 cmRegularly May–Oct
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipesPassage migrantCommon23–27 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Palm WarblerSetophaga palmarumPassage migrantCommon12–14 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Horned LarkEremophila alpestrisWinter visitorCommon16–20 cmRecorded all year
MerlinFalco columbariusResidentCommon24–33 cmRecorded all year
Wild TurkeyMeleagris gallopavoResidentCommon100–125 cmRecorded all year
Bay-breasted WarblerSetophaga castaneaSummer visitorCommon14–14 cmRegularly May–Sep
Alder FlycatcherEmpidonax alnorumSummer visitorCommon13–17 cmRegularly May–Aug
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphiaSummer visitorCommon28–38 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisWinter visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Least SandpiperCalidris minutillaPassage migrantCommon13–15 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