Common Birds in Scotland
Our list for Scotland has 87 common birds recorded regularly there: 60 residents, 19 summer visitors and 8 winter visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Scotland in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 87, most common first
Great TitParus majorResidentCommonRecorded all year
DunnockPrunella modularisResidentCommon14–15 cmRecorded all year
Common GullLarus canusResidentCommon40–46 cmRecorded all year
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaResidentCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinusResidentCommon64–79 cmRecorded all year
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaSummer visitorCommon10–12 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
RedwingTurdus iliacusWinter visitorCommon20–24 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
RedshankTringa totanusResidentCommon27–29 cmRecorded all year
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian SkylarkAlauda arvensisResidentCommon16–18 cmRecorded all year
Hooded CrowCorvus cornixResidentCommon44–51 cmRecorded all year
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboResidentCommon80–100 cmRecorded all year
Northern GannetMorus bassanusSummer visitorCommon87–100 cmRecorded all year
Coal TitPeriparus aterResidentCommon10–12 cmRecorded all year
Mute SwanCygnus olorResidentCommon140–160 cmRecorded all year
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaWinter visitorCommon40–51 cmRegularly Sep–Jul
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 cmRecorded all year
Greylag GooseAnser anserResidentCommon75–90 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeWinter visitorCommon42–51 cmRecorded all year
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly May–Aug
GoldcrestRegulus regulusResidentCommon9–10 cmRecorded all year
European ShagGulosus aristotelisResidentCommon65–80 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