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 · Oct
Share of all bird records in Quebec in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 81, most common first
Great Blue HeronArdea herodiasSummer visitorCommon91–137 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
Common MerganserMergus merganserWinter visitorCommon58–68 cmRecorded all year
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arboreaWinter visitorCommon14–17 cmRegularly Oct–May
House FinchHaemorhous mexicanusWinter visitorCommon13–15 cmRecorded all year
American RedstartSetophaga ruticillaSummer visitorCommon11–14 cmRegularly May–Sep
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaWinter visitorCommon40–51 cmRecorded all year
Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronataSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct
American Black DuckAnas rubripesWinter visitorCommon54–59 cmRecorded all year
Northern FlickerColaptes auratusSummer visitorCommon28–31 cmRecorded all year
Turkey VultureCathartes auraSummer visitorCommon62–81 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinusResidentCommon64–79 cmRecorded all year
Pine SiskinSpinus pinusWinter visitorCommon11–14 cmRecorded all year
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatusWinter visitorCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisWinter visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
VeeryCatharus fuscescensSummer visitorCommon16–19 cmRegularly May–Sep
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendulaSummer visitorCommon9–11 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubrisSummer visitorCommon7–9 cmRegularly May–Sep
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatusResidentCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
Evening GrosbeakHesperiphona vespertinaWinter visitorCommon16–22 cmRecorded all year
White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrysPassage migrantCommon15–16 cmRegularly May–Nov
OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapillaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly May–Sep
Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensisSummer visitorCommon20–24 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