Common Birds in Greece
Our list for Greece has 111 common birds recorded regularly there: 52 residents, 29 summer visitors, 27 winter visitors and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Greece in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 111, most common first
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleusResidentCommon12–12 cmRecorded all year
Cirl BuntingEmberiza cirlusResidentCommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
WhinchatSaxicola rubetraPassage migrantCommon12–14 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Western Marsh-harrierCircus aeruginosusResidentCommon48–56 cmRecorded all year
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosWinter visitorCommon20–23 cmRegularly Oct–Jul
WheatearOenanthe oenantheSummer visitorCommon15–16 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
CootFulica atraResidentCommon36–42 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian TealAnas creccaWinter visitorCommon34–38 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
StonechatSaxicola rubicolaResidentCommon12–13 cmRecorded all year
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatusResidentCommon46–51 cmRecorded all year
Woodchat ShrikeLanius senatorSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Pallid SwiftApus pallidusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollisResidentCommon23–29 cmRecorded all year
Greater FlamingoPhoenicopterus roseusResidentCommon120–145 cmRecorded all year
Wood SandpiperTringa glareolaSummer visitorCommon19–21 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
SerinSerinus serinusResidentCommon11–12 cmRecorded all year
Common ShelduckTadorna tadornaResidentCommon58–67 cmRecorded all year
European Turtle-doveStreptopelia turturSummer visitorCommon26–28 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
JackdawColoeus monedulaResidentCommon34–39 cmRecorded all year
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusWinter visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucosResidentCommon18–20 cmRecorded all year
LinnetLinaria cannabinaResidentCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
MoorhenGallinula chloropusResidentCommon30–38 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