Common Birds in Finland
Our list for Finland has 109 common birds recorded regularly there: 26 residents, 65 summer visitors, 16 winter visitors and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Finland in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 109, most common first
Great TitParus majorWinter visitorCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleusWinter visitorCommon12–12 cmRecorded all year
Hooded CrowCorvus cornixResidentCommon44–51 cmRecorded all year
MagpiePica picaWinter visitorCommon44–46 cmRecorded all year
BlackbirdTurdus merulaResidentCommon23–29 cmRecorded all year
GreenfinchChloris chlorisWinter visitorCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos majorResidentCommon23–26 cmRecorded all year
JackdawColoeus monedulaResidentCommon34–39 cmRecorded all year
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhulaWinter visitorCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanusResidentCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
ChaffinchFringilla coelebsSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
YellowhammerEmberiza citrinellaResidentCommon16–17 cmRecorded all year
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilusSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Sep
Common GullLarus canusResidentCommon40–46 cmRecorded all year
FieldfareTurdus pilarisResidentCommon22–27 cmRecorded all year
Whooper SwanCygnus cygnusResidentCommon140–165 cmRecorded all year
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusSummer visitorCommon38–44 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly May–Sep
European Herring GullLarus argentatusResidentCommon55–67 cmRecorded all year
WoodpigeonColumba palumbusSummer visitorCommon40–45 cmRegularly Feb–Oct
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–18 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