Common Birds in West Sussex
Our list for West Sussex has 107 common birds recorded regularly there: 73 residents, 17 summer visitors, 12 winter visitors and 5 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in West Sussex in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 107, most common first
AvocetRecurvirostra avosettaResidentCommon42–45 cmRecorded all year
Garden WarblerSylvia borinSummer visitorCommon14–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Grey WagtailMotacilla cinereaResidentCommon17–20 cmRecorded all year
Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenusSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollisResidentCommon23–29 cmRecorded all year
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusSummer visitorCommon40–46 cmRecorded all year
Western Marsh-harrierCircus aeruginosusWinter visitorCommon48–56 cmRecorded all year
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhulaResidentCommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticulaResidentCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
Common KingfisherAlcedo atthisResidentCommon16–17 cmRecorded all year
TreecreeperCerthia familiarisResidentCommon12–14 cmRecorded all year
Common SnipeGallinago gallinagoWinter visitorCommon25–27 cmRegularly Jul–Apr
Lesser WhitethroatCurruca currucaSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
GreenshankTringa nebulariaSummer visitorCommon30–35 cmRecorded all year
Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorusResidentCommon26–29 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