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 · Oct
Share of all bird records in Finland in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 109, most common first
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisSummer visitorCommon19–22 cmRecorded all year
Greylag GooseAnser anserSummer visitorCommon75–90 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
Tufted DuckAythya fuligulaResidentCommon40–47 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian TealAnas creccaSummer visitorCommon34–38 cmRecorded all year
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboSummer visitorCommon80–100 cmRecorded all year
GoldcrestRegulus regulusResidentCommon9–10 cmRecorded all year
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinusResidentCommon64–79 cmRecorded all year
White-tailed Sea-eagleHaliaeetus albicillaResidentCommon66–94 cmRecorded all year
European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelisResidentCommon12–13 cmRecorded all year
Wood SandpiperTringa glareolaSummer visitorCommon19–21 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Bohemian WaxwingBombycilla garrulusWinter visitorCommon19–23 cmRegularly May–Mar
SparrowhawkAccipiter nisusWinter visitorCommon28–38 cmRecorded all year
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Jan–Nov
CuckooCuculus canorusSummer visitorCommon32–34 cmRegularly May–Aug
Eurasian OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegusSummer visitorCommon40–45 cmRegularly Mar–Aug
BramblingFringilla montifringillaResidentCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeSummer visitorCommon42–51 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Willow TitPoecile montanusWinter visitorCommon11–12 cmRecorded all year
TreecreeperCerthia familiarisWinter visitorCommon12–14 cmRecorded all year
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosSummer visitorCommon20–23 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
WhitethroatCurruca communisSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Aug
GreenshankTringa nebulariaSummer visitorCommon30–35 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatusSummer visitorCommon46–51 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
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