Common Birds in Quebec
Our list for Quebec has 81 common birds recorded regularly there: 15 residents, 42 summer visitors, 20 winter visitors and 4 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Quebec in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 81, most common first
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchosResidentCommon41–53 cmRecorded all year
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescensResidentCommon14–18 cmRecorded all year
Blue JayCyanocitta cristataResidentCommon25–30 cmRecorded all year
White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensisWinter visitorCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
American RobinTurdus migratoriusResidentCommon20–28 cmRecorded all year
Song SparrowMelospiza melodiaSummer visitorCommon12–17 cmRecorded all year
Hairy WoodpeckerLeuconotopicus villosusWinter visitorCommon18–26 cmRecorded all year
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisSummer visitorCommon43–54 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Canada GooseBranta canadensisResidentCommon76–110 cmRecorded all year
Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceusSummer visitorCommon17–23 cmRegularly Feb–Nov
Mourning DoveZenaida macrouraResidentCommon23–34 cmRecorded all year
Common RavenCorvus coraxResidentCommon54–67 cmRecorded all year
Common GrackleQuiscalus quisculaSummer visitorCommon28–34 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Common RedpollAcanthis flammeaWinter visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Rock DoveColumba liviaWinter visitorCommon29–37 cmRecorded all year
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumSummer visitorCommon15–18 cmRecorded all year
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
Northern Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestivaSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly May–Sep
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerinaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusResidentCommon53–65 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