Common Birds in West Midlands
Our list for West Midlands has 73 common birds recorded regularly there: 53 residents, 10 summer visitors, 9 winter visitors and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in West Midlands in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 73, most common first
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilusSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollisResidentCommon23–29 cmRecorded all year
Little EgretEgretta garzettaResidentCommon55–65 cmRecorded all year
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataWinter visitorCommon44–51 cmRecorded all year
Grey WagtailMotacilla cinereaResidentCommon17–20 cmRecorded all year
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
GadwallMareca streperaResidentCommon46–56 cmRecorded all year
WhitethroatCurruca communisSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeWinter visitorCommon42–51 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Greylag GooseAnser anserResidentCommon75–90 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian TealAnas creccaWinter visitorCommon34–38 cmRecorded all year
Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorusResidentCommon26–29 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoResidentCommon30–32 cmRecorded all year
Common GullLarus canusWinter visitorCommon40–46 cmRegularly Jun–Mar
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisPassage migrantCommon14–15 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinusWinter visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Jul–Apr
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusResidentCommon28–31 cmRecorded all year
SparrowhawkAccipiter nisusResidentCommon28–38 cmRecorded all year
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusResidentCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
PochardAythya ferinaWinter visitorCommon42–49 cmRegularly Jun–Mar
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhulaResidentCommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Common Reed-warblerAcrocephalus scirpaceusSummer visitorCommon13–14 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Eurasian OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegusSummer visitorCommon40–45 cmRegularly Jan–Aug
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