Common Birds in Dumfries and Galloway
Our list for Dumfries and Galloway has 103 common birds recorded regularly there: 63 residents, 19 summer visitors, 17 winter visitors and 4 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Dumfries and Galloway in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 103, most common first
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
BlackbirdTurdus merulaResidentCommon24–25 cmRecorded all year
Carrion CrowCorvus coroneResidentCommon45–47 cmRecorded all year
WoodpigeonColumba palumbusResidentCommon40–42 cmRecorded all year
European RobinErithacus rubeculaResidentCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
ChaffinchFringilla coelebsResidentCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
JackdawColoeus monedulaResidentCommon34–39 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytesResidentCommon9–10 cmRecorded all year
European Herring GullLarus argentatusResidentCommon55–67 cmRecorded all year
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilusSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Great TitParus majorResidentCommonRecorded all year
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleusResidentCommon11–12 cmRecorded all year
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelisResidentCommon12–13 cmRecorded all year
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusSummer visitorCommon52–64 cmRecorded all year
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Eurasian OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegusResidentCommon40–45 cmRecorded all year
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusResidentCommon38–44 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeWinter visitorCommon42–51 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
RookCorvus frugilegusResidentCommon45–47 cmRecorded all year
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 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