Common Birds in Cornwall
Our list for Cornwall has 97 common birds recorded regularly there: 57 residents, 14 summer visitors, 20 winter visitors and 6 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Cornwall in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 97, most common first
RedshankTringa totanusWinter visitorCommon27–29 cmRegularly Jun–Apr
Mute SwanCygnus olorResidentCommon140–160 cmRecorded all year
RazorbillAlca tordaResidentCommon38–43 cmRecorded all year
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisSummer visitorCommon36–41 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Sand MartinRiparia ripariaSummer visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenusSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Common GullLarus canusWinter visitorCommon40–46 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinusSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRecorded all year
FirecrestRegulus ignicapillaWinter visitorCommon9–10 cmRecorded all year
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusSummer visitorCommon40–46 cmRegularly Dec–Oct
FieldfareTurdus pilarisWinter visitorCommon22–27 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
SparrowhawkAccipiter nisusResidentCommon28–38 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeWinter visitorCommon42–51 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Balearic ShearwaterPuffinus mauretanicusPassage migrantCommon35–40 cmRegularly Jun–Nov
Common SnipeGallinago gallinagoWinter visitorCommon25–27 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Eurasian JayGarrulus glandariusResidentCommon32–35 cmRecorded all year
Red-billed ChoughPyrrhocorax pyrrhocoraxResidentCommon39–43 cmRecorded all year
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusWinter visitorCommon28–31 cmRegularly Aug–Mar
Common ShelduckTadorna tadornaResidentCommon58–67 cmRecorded all year
Yellow-browed WarblerPhylloscopus inornatusPassage migrantCommon10–11 cmRegularly Sep–Jan
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos majorResidentCommon23–26 cmRecorded all year
CuckooCuculus canorusSummer visitorCommon32–34 cmRegularly Apr–Jul
Water RailRallus aquaticusWinter visitorCommon23–28 cmRegularly Aug–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