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 · Oct
Share of all bird records in Latvia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 105, most common first
FieldfareTurdus pilarisResidentCommon22–27 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinusResidentCommon11–13 cmRecorded all year
WoodpigeonColumba palumbusSummer visitorCommon40–45 cmRegularly Jan–Nov
Marsh TitPoecile palustrisWinter visitorCommon12–13 cmRecorded all year
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusResidentCommon38–44 cmRecorded all year
WhitethroatCurruca communisSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Aug
Eurasian SkylarkAlauda arvensisSummer visitorCommon16–18 cmRegularly Feb–Oct
Common CraneGrus grusSummer visitorCommon100–130 cmRegularly Feb–Oct
Common MerganserMergus merganserWinter visitorCommon58–68 cmRecorded all year
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaResidentCommon40–51 cmRecorded all year
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–18 cmRecorded all year
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilusSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Sep
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboResidentCommon80–100 cmRecorded all year
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosSummer visitorCommon20–23 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
YellowhammerEmberiza citrinellaResidentCommon16–17 cmRecorded all year
CuckooCuculus canorusSummer visitorCommon32–34 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
Common GullLarus canusResidentCommon40–46 cmRecorded all year
BuzzardButeo buteoResidentCommon51–57 cmRecorded all year
GoldcrestRegulus regulusResidentCommon9–10 cmRecorded all year
Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifronsPassage migrantCommon64–81 cmRegularly Sep–May
TreecreeperCerthia familiarisResidentCommon12–14 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