Common Birds in South Yorkshire
Our list for South Yorkshire has 103 common birds recorded regularly there: 67 residents, 23 summer visitors, 11 winter visitors and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in South Yorkshire in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 103, most common first
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusResidentCommon52–64 cmRecorded all year
Canada GooseBranta canadensisResidentCommon76–110 cmRecorded all year
Common PheasantPhasianus colchicusResidentCommon50–90 cmRecorded all year
BuzzardButeo buteoResidentCommon51–57 cmRecorded all year
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboResidentCommon80–100 cmRecorded all year
Greylag GooseAnser anserResidentCommon75–90 cmRecorded all year
Mute SwanCygnus olorResidentCommon140–160 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian TealAnas creccaResidentCommon34–38 cmRecorded all year
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 cmRecorded all year
RedwingTurdus iliacusWinter visitorCommon20–24 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian JayGarrulus glandariusResidentCommon32–35 cmRecorded all year
KestrelFalco tinnunculusResidentCommon32–39 cmRecorded all year
GadwallMareca streperaResidentCommon46–56 cmRecorded all year
Tufted DuckAythya fuligulaResidentCommon40–47 cmRecorded all year
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaResidentCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
European Herring GullLarus argentatusResidentCommon55–67 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeWinter visitorCommon42–51 cmRegularly Jun–Apr
Eurasian OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegusSummer visitorCommon40–45 cmRegularly Feb–Aug
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataResidentCommon44–51 cmRecorded all year
JackdawColoeus monedulaResidentCommon34–39 cmRecorded all year
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusResidentCommon14–16 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