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 · Oct
Share of all bird records in North Macedonia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 100, most common first
Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanusResidentCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelisResidentCommon12–13 cmRecorded all year
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
Grey WagtailMotacilla cinereaWinter visitorCommon17–20 cmRegularly May–Mar
Red-backed ShrikeLanius collurioSummer visitorCommon16–18 cmRegularly May–Oct
CuckooCuculus canorusPassage migrantCommon32–34 cmRegularly Apr–Jun
GreenfinchChloris chlorisResidentCommon15–16 cmRecorded all year
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaResidentCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleusResidentCommon11–12 cmRecorded all year
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollisWinter visitorCommon23–29 cmRecorded all year
RookCorvus frugilegusWinter visitorCommon45–47 cmRecorded all year
Corn BuntingEmberiza calandraSummer visitorCommon16–19 cmRegularly Feb–Dec
Common RavenCorvus coraxResidentCommon54–67 cmRegularly Dec–Oct
Common KingfisherAlcedo atthisWinter visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly Aug–Mar
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaSummer visitorCommon10–12 cmRegularly Feb–Nov
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatusWinter visitorCommon46–51 cmRecorded all year
Golden OrioleOriolus oriolusSummer visitorCommon22–24 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Cetti's WarblerCettia cettiPassage migrantCommon13–14 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
PochardAythya ferinaWinter visitorCommon42–49 cmRegularly Sep–Feb
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Feb–Oct
Great White EgretArdea albaWinter visitorCommon80–104 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaeaResidentCommon12–15 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