Common Birds in Latvia
Our list for Latvia has 105 common birds recorded regularly there: 33 residents, 50 summer visitors, 19 winter visitors and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Latvia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 105, most common first
Hooded CrowCorvus cornixResidentCommon44–51 cmRecorded all year
Great TitParus majorResidentCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
MagpiePica picaWinter visitorCommon44–46 cmRecorded all year
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleusResidentCommon12–12 cmRecorded all year
Common RavenCorvus coraxWinter visitorCommon54–67 cmRecorded all year
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Rock DoveColumba liviaResidentCommon29–37 cmRecorded all year
ChaffinchFringilla coelebsSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
European Herring GullLarus argentatusResidentCommon55–67 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaeaWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
JackdawColoeus monedulaWinter visitorCommon34–39 cmRecorded all year
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly May–Aug
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhulaWinter visitorCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanusResidentCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
BlackbirdTurdus merulaResidentCommon23–29 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian JayGarrulus glandariusWinter visitorCommon32–35 cmRecorded all year
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos majorResidentCommon23–26 cmRecorded all year
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaSummer visitorCommon10–12 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisSummer visitorCommon19–22 cmRecorded all year
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
European RobinErithacus rubeculaSummer visitorCommon13–14 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
GreenfinchChloris chlorisResidentCommon14–16 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