Birds in St Pierre & Miquelon
Our list for St Pierre & Miquelon has 146 bird species recorded regularly there: 17 residents, 24 summer visitors, 17 winter visitors, 78 passage migrants and 10 scarce visitors
The list comes from 44,000 birdwatchers' records from 2019–2024, shared through the eBird Observation Dataset on GBIF. A bird is listed when it was recorded in at least 3 of the 6 years and has a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur here than are listed; the months show when it is recorded most years.
- Species on our list
- 146
- In October
- 98
- Common
- 98
- Busiest month
- May
This month: October
GBIF · OctMost likely
Arriving now
EiderWinter visitorSep 0.18% → Oct 1.17%
Northern ShovelerPassage migrantSep 0.18% → Oct 0.56%
Surf ScoterPassage migrantSep 0.04% → Oct 0.45%
Swainson's ThrushPassage migrantSep 0.09% → Oct 0.38%
Orange-crowned WarblerPassage migrantSep 0.00% → Oct 0.38%
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerPassage migrantSep 0.15% → Oct 0.38%
Share of all bird records in St Pierre & Miquelon in October, 2019–2024. “Arriving now” are the birds whose share rises most from last month. Each month links to that month’s page.
The bird calendar for St Pierre & Miquelon
Month by monthWhen each bird is around, through the year. The darker the square, the closer that month is to the bird’s busiest. Filter by summer or winter visitors to see the seasons turn over.
| Bird | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Robin | ||||||||||||
| American Herring Gull | ||||||||||||
| Fox Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| American Black Duck | ||||||||||||
| Great Black-backed Gull | ||||||||||||
| Eider | ||||||||||||
| Blue Jay | ||||||||||||
| Song Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Common Raven | ||||||||||||
| Ring-billed Gull | ||||||||||||
| Greater Yellowlegs | ||||||||||||
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | ||||||||||||
| Common Starling | ||||||||||||
| House Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Swamp Sparrow | ||||||||||||
| Red-breasted Merganser | ||||||||||||
| Eurasian Teal | ||||||||||||
| Semipalmated Plover | ||||||||||||
| Common Loon | ||||||||||||
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | ||||||||||||
| Northern Flicker | ||||||||||||
| Iceland Gull | ||||||||||||
| Great Cormorant | ||||||||||||
| Black Guillemot | ||||||||||||
| Blackpoll Warbler | ||||||||||||
| American Crow | ||||||||||||
| Common Grackle | ||||||||||||
| Common Tern | ||||||||||||
| Mallard | ||||||||||||
| Northern Waterthrush |
The year in St Pierre & Miquelon
Records by month| January | 1,723 |
|---|---|
| February | 1,426 |
| March | 1,706 |
| April | 2,876 |
| May | 8,698 |
| June | 3,663 |
| July | 2,378 |
| August | 4,116 |
| September | 5,505 |
| October | 5,718 |
| November | 3,473 |
| December | 2,517 |
May has the most records (8,698). Records follow birdwatchers as well as birds: a busy month means more people out looking, as well as more birds passing through.
By family
12 of 26How common
All 146 birds, A to Z
- Alder Flycatcher
- American Black Duck
- American Crow
- American Golden-Plover
- American Herring Gull
- American Redstart
- American Robin
- American Tree Sparrow
- Arctic Jaeger
- Arctic Tern
- Atlantic Puffin
- Baird's Sandpiper
- Bald Eagle
- Baltimore Oriole
- Barn Swallow
- Bay-breasted Warbler
- Black Guillemot
- Black-backed Woodpecker
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-throated Blue Warbler
- Black-throated Green Warbler
- Blackpoll Warbler
- Blue Jay
- Blue-headed Vireo
Show all 146 birds
- Bohemian Waxwing
- Bonaparte's Gull
- Buff-breasted Sandpiper
- Canada Goose
- Cape May Warbler
- Cedar Waxwing
- Chestnut-sided Warbler
- Chipping Sparrow
- Clay-colored Sparrow
- Common Grackle
- Common Loon
- Common Merganser
- Common Raven
- Common Redpoll
- Common Starling
- Common Tern
- Common Yellowthroat
- Dickcissel
- Dunlin
- Eider
- Eurasian Teal
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Evening Grosbeak
- Fox Sparrow
- Fulmar
- Gadwall
- Glaucous Gull
- Goldeneye
- Gray Catbird
- Great Black-backed Gull
- Great Blue Heron
- Great Cormorant
- Great Shearwater
- Great Skua
- Greater Scaup
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Grey Phalarope
- Grey Plover
- Hermit Thrush
- Hooded Merganser
- Horned Lark
- House Sparrow
- Hudsonian Godwit
- Iceland Gull
- King Eider
- Kittiwake
- Lapland Longspur
- Leach's Storm-petrel
- Least Flycatcher
- Least Sandpiper
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Yellowlegs
- Lincoln's Sparrow
- Little Auk
- Long-tailed Duck
- Magnolia Warbler
- Mallard
- Manx Shearwater
- Merlin
- Mourning Dove
- Mourning Warbler
- Nashville Warbler
- Northern Flicker
- Northern Gannet
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Waterthrush
- Orange-crowned Warbler
- Osprey
- Ovenbird
- Palm Warbler
- Pectoral Sandpiper
- Peregrine Falcon
- Philadelphia Vireo
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Pine Siskin
- Piping Plover
- Pomarine Jaeger
- Purple Martin
- Purple Sandpiper
- Razorbill
- Red Crossbill
- Red Knot
- Red-breasted Merganser
- Red-necked Grebe
- Red-necked Phalarope
- Red-throated Loon
- Red-winged Blackbird
- Ring-billed Gull
- Rock Dove
- Rose-breasted Grosbeak
- Rough-legged Hawk
- Ruby-crowned Kinglet
- Ruby-throated Hummingbird
- Ruddy Turnstone
- Sand Martin
- Sanderling
- Scarlet Tanager
- Semipalmated Plover
- Semipalmated Sandpiper
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Short-billed Dowitcher
- Short-eared Owl
- Snow Bunting
- Snowy Owl
- Solitary Sandpiper
- Song Sparrow
- Sooty Shearwater
- Stilt Sandpiper
- Surf Scoter
- Swainson's Thrush
- Swamp Sparrow
- Tennessee Warbler
- Tufted Duck
- Whimbrel
- White-crowned Sparrow
- White-rumped Sandpiper
- Willet
- Wood Duck
- Yellow-bellied Flycatcher
- Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
Questions
3How many birds are on Birdfact's list for St Pierre & Miquelon?
146 species, each recorded regularly in St Pierre & Miquelon (in at least 3 of the 6 years 2019–2024): 17 residents, 24 summer visitors, 17 winter visitors, 78 passage migrants and 10 scarce visitors. The list includes only birds with a Birdfact species guide, so more species occur in St Pierre & Miquelon, and rarer vagrants are not listed.
What birds can I see in St Pierre & Miquelon in October?
98 species on our list for St Pierre & Miquelon are recorded regularly in October. Of these, the most often recorded are Fox Sparrow, American Robin, Blue Jay, American Herring Gull and Yellow-rumped Warbler.
What are the most common birds in St Pierre & Miquelon?
Of the birds on our list, the ones birdwatchers record most often in St Pierre & Miquelon are Eider, American Robin, Fox Sparrow, American Black Duck and Greater Yellowlegs.
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







