Common Birds in North Macedonia
Our list for North Macedonia has 100 common birds recorded regularly there: 29 residents, 24 summer visitors, 18 winter visitors, 28 passage migrants and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in North Macedonia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 100, most common first
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Great TitParus majorResidentCommonRecorded all year
Hooded CrowCorvus cornixResidentCommon44–51 cmRecorded all year
MagpiePica picaResidentCommon44–46 cmRecorded all year
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Rock DoveColumba liviaResidentCommon29–37 cmRecorded all year
CootFulica atraWinter visitorCommon36–42 cmRecorded all year
JackdawColoeus monedulaResidentCommon34–39 cmRecorded all year
ChaffinchFringilla coelebsResidentCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusResidentCommon38–44 cmRecorded all year
BlackbirdTurdus merulaResidentCommon24–25 cmRecorded all year
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
NightingaleLuscinia megarhynchosSummer visitorCommon15–17 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
European RobinErithacus rubeculaResidentCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboResidentCommon80–100 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoResidentCommon30–32 cmRecorded all year
WoodpigeonColumba palumbusResidentCommon40–42 cmRecorded all year
Spotted FlycatcherMuscicapa striataPassage migrantCommon14–16 cmRegularly May–Oct
BuzzardButeo buteoResidentCommon51–57 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian JayGarrulus glandariusResidentCommon32–35 cmRecorded all year
MoorhenGallinula chloropusWinter visitorCommon30–38 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