Common Birds in Russia
Our list for Russia has 99 common birds recorded regularly there: 27 residents, 56 summer visitors, 15 winter visitors and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Russia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 99, most common first
Great TitParus majorResidentCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
Hooded CrowCorvus cornixResidentCommon44–51 cmRecorded all year
Rock DoveColumba liviaResidentCommon29–37 cmRecorded all year
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleusWinter visitorCommon12–12 cmRecorded all year
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhulaWinter visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Jul–May
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanusResidentCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
MagpiePica picaResidentCommon44–46 cmRecorded all year
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos majorResidentCommon23–26 cmRecorded all year
ChaffinchFringilla coelebsSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaeaWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
FieldfareTurdus pilarisResidentCommon22–27 cmRecorded all year
Common RavenCorvus coraxResidentCommon54–67 cmRecorded all year
JackdawColoeus monedulaResidentCommon34–39 cmRecorded all year
GreenfinchChloris chlorisResidentCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian JayGarrulus glandariusWinter visitorCommon32–35 cmRecorded all year
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusSummer visitorCommon38–44 cmRecorded all year
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisSummer visitorCommon19–22 cmRegularly Feb–Nov
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–18 cmRecorded all year
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly May–Aug
BlackbirdTurdus merulaResidentCommon23–29 cmRecorded all year
TreecreeperCerthia familiarisWinter visitorCommon12–14 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