Common Birds in Portugal
Our list for Portugal has 84 common birds recorded regularly there: 54 residents, 12 summer visitors, 15 winter visitors and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Portugal in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 84, most common first
Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellusResidentCommon48–66 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian SkylarkAlauda arvensisResidentCommon16–18 cmRecorded all year
DunlinCalidris alpinaResidentCommon16–22 cmRecorded all year
SanderlingCalidris albaWinter visitorCommon18–20 cmRecorded all year
Red KiteMilvus milvusWinter visitorCommon60–66 cmRegularly Oct–Jul
RedshankTringa totanusResidentCommon27–29 cmRecorded all year
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollisResidentCommon23–29 cmRecorded all year
Greater FlamingoPhoenicopterus roseusResidentCommon120–145 cmRecorded all year
GreenshankTringa nebulariaWinter visitorCommon30–35 cmRecorded all year
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon19–22 cmRecorded all year
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusResidentCommon40–46 cmRecorded all year
Green SandpiperTringa ochropusWinter visitorCommon21–24 cmRegularly Jun–Apr
Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatusResidentCommon13–15 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian TealAnas creccaWinter visitorCommon34–38 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Red-legged PartridgeAlectoris rufaResidentCommon32–34 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