Common Birds in Wiltshire
Our list for Wiltshire has 76 common birds recorded regularly there: 62 residents, 9 summer visitors, 4 winter visitors and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Wiltshire in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 76, most common first
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos majorResidentCommon23–26 cmRecorded all year
BuzzardButeo buteoResidentCommon51–57 cmRecorded all year
Red KiteMilvus milvusResidentCommon60–66 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoResidentCommon30–32 cmRecorded all year
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusResidentCommon52–64 cmRecorded all year
RedwingTurdus iliacusWinter visitorCommon20–24 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Eurasian SkylarkAlauda arvensisResidentCommon16–18 cmRecorded all year
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaResidentCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 cmRecorded all year
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Common PheasantPhasianus colchicusResidentCommon50–90 cmRecorded all year
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusResidentCommon38–44 cmRecorded all year
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisResidentCommon14–15 cmRecorded all year
WhitethroatCurruca communisSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
FieldfareTurdus pilarisWinter visitorCommon22–27 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Mute SwanCygnus olorResidentCommon140–160 cmRecorded all year
KestrelFalco tinnunculusResidentCommon32–39 cmRecorded all year
Stock DoveColumba oenasResidentCommon32–34 cmRecorded all year
MoorhenGallinula chloropusResidentCommon30–38 cmRecorded all year
Corn BuntingEmberiza calandraSummer visitorCommon16–19 cmRecorded all year
Canada GooseBranta canadensisResidentCommon76–110 cmRecorded all year
European Herring GullLarus argentatusResidentCommon55–67 cmRecorded all year
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboResidentCommon80–100 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