Common Birds in Taiwan
Our list for Taiwan has 38 common birds recorded regularly there: 16 residents, 3 summer visitors, 18 winter visitors and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Taiwan in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 38, most common first
Wood SandpiperTringa glareolaWinter visitorCommon19–21 cmRegularly Jul–May
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeWinter visitorCommon42–51 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
OspreyPandion haliaetusWinter visitorCommon54–58 cmRecorded all year
AvocetRecurvirostra avosettaWinter visitorCommon42–45 cmRecorded all year
Pacific Golden-PloverPluvialis fulvaWinter visitorCommon23–26 cmRegularly Jul–May
Red-necked PhalaropePhalaropus lobatusPassage migrantCommon18–19 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
White-tailed RobinMyiomela leucuraSummer visitorCommon16–18 cmRecorded all year
DunlinCalidris alpinaWinter visitorCommon16–22 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Common TernSterna hirundoSummer visitorCommon31–35 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Northern PintailAnas acutaWinter visitorCommon59–76 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
KestrelFalco tinnunculusWinter visitorCommon32–39 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Blue Rock-thrushMonticola solitariusWinter visitorCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
RedshankTringa totanusResidentCommon27–29 cmRecorded all year
Yellow-browed WarblerPhylloscopus inornatusWinter visitorCommon10–11 cmRegularly Sep–May
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusWinter visitorCommon38–44 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
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