Common Birds in Bristol
Our list for Bristol has 58 common birds recorded regularly there: 42 residents, 6 summer visitors, 8 winter visitors and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Bristol in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 58, most common first
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 cmRecorded all year
RedwingTurdus iliacusWinter visitorCommon20–24 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisWinter visitorCommon14–15 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaWinter visitorCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
Grey WagtailMotacilla cinereaResidentCommon17–20 cmRecorded all year
ChaffinchFringilla coelebsWinter visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Coal TitPeriparus aterResidentCommon10–12 cmRecorded all year
MoorhenGallinula chloropusResidentCommon30–38 cmRecorded all year
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos majorResidentCommon23–26 cmRecorded all year
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
BuzzardButeo buteoResidentCommon51–57 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoResidentCommon30–32 cmRecorded all year
GreenfinchChloris chlorisResidentCommon15–16 cmRecorded all year
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilusPassage migrantCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
SparrowhawkAccipiter nisusResidentCommon28–38 cmRecorded all year
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboResidentCommon80–100 cmRecorded all year
European Green WoodpeckerPicus viridisResidentCommon30–36 cmRecorded all year
Common RavenCorvus coraxResidentCommon54–67 cmRecorded all year
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
Mute SwanCygnus olorResidentCommon140–160 cmRecorded all year
WhitethroatCurruca communisSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
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