Common Birds in Estonia
Our list for Estonia has 128 common birds recorded regularly there: 25 residents, 69 summer visitors, 26 winter visitors and 8 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Estonia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 128, most common first
Hooded CrowCorvus cornixResidentCommon44–51 cmRecorded all year
Great TitParus majorWinter visitorCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
Common MerganserMergus merganserWinter visitorCommon58–68 cmRecorded all year
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaWinter visitorCommon40–51 cmRecorded all year
European Herring GullLarus argentatusResidentCommon55–67 cmRecorded all year
Mute SwanCygnus olorResidentCommon140–160 cmRecorded all year
Long-tailed DuckClangula hyemalisWinter visitorCommon37–60 cmRegularly Sep–May
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleusWinter visitorCommon12–12 cmRecorded all year
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhulaWinter visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Oct–Aug
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Eurasian SkylarkAlauda arvensisSummer visitorCommon16–18 cmRegularly Feb–Oct
Common RavenCorvus coraxResidentCommon54–67 cmRecorded all year
Common GullLarus canusResidentCommon40–46 cmRecorded all year
ChaffinchFringilla coelebsSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
BlackbirdTurdus merulaResidentCommon23–29 cmRecorded all year
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusSummer visitorCommon28–31 cmRegularly Feb–Nov
TreecreeperCerthia familiarisWinter visitorCommon12–14 cmRecorded all year
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusResidentCommon38–44 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaeaWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
JackdawColoeus monedulaResidentCommon34–39 cmRecorded all year
White-tailed Sea-eagleHaliaeetus albicillaResidentCommon66–94 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