Common Birds in Croatia
Our list for Croatia has 104 common birds recorded regularly there: 47 residents, 28 summer visitors, 27 winter visitors and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Croatia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 104, most common first
Hooded CrowCorvus cornixResidentCommon44–51 cmRecorded all year
BlackbirdTurdus merulaResidentCommon23–29 cmRecorded all year
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Great TitParus majorResidentCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
Yellow-legged GullLarus michahellisResidentCommon52–68 cmRecorded all year
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–18 cmRecorded all year
European RobinErithacus rubeculaWinter visitorCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
Rock DoveColumba liviaResidentCommon29–37 cmRecorded all year
ChaffinchFringilla coelebsResidentCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Feb–Dec
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboWinter visitorCommon80–100 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoResidentCommon31–33 cmRecorded all year
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
WoodpigeonColumba palumbusResidentCommon40–45 cmRecorded all year
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleusResidentCommon12–12 cmRecorded all year
BuzzardButeo buteoResidentCommon51–57 cmRecorded all year
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon19–22 cmRecorded all year
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusResidentCommon38–44 cmRecorded all year
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaResidentCommon10–12 cmRecorded all year
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaResidentCommon17–19 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