Common Birds in East Ayrshire
Our list for East Ayrshire has 97 common birds recorded regularly there: 32 residents, 38 summer visitors, 19 passage migrants and 8 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in East Ayrshire in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 97, most common first
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly May–Jul
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoSummer visitorCommon30–32 cmRegularly Jan–Jul
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboResidentCommon80–100 cmRegularly Mar–May
Grey HeronArdea cinereaSummer visitorCommon90–98 cmRegularly Jan–Jul
Greylag GooseAnser anserResidentCommon75–90 cmRegularly Jan–May
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollisResidentCommon23–29 cmRegularly Sep
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosSummer visitorCommon20–23 cmRegularly Mar–Jul
Common PheasantPhasianus colchicusSummer visitorCommon50–90 cmRegularly Mar–Jul
Eurasian SkylarkAlauda arvensisSummer visitorCommon16–18 cmRegularly Mar–Jul
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusResidentCommon28–31 cmRegularly Jan–May
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaPassage migrantCommon10–12 cmRegularly Apr–Jul
Whooper SwanCygnus cygnusPassage migrantCommon140–165 cmRegularly Jan
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhulaResidentCommon15–17 cmRegularly Apr–Jun
Common GullLarus canusResidentCommon40–46 cmRegularly Feb–Jun
Common MerganserMergus merganserResidentCommon58–68 cmRegularly Jan–May
CuckooCuculus canorusPassage migrantCommon32–34 cmRegularly May–Jun
CurlewNumenius arquataResidentCommon50–60 cmRegularly Mar–Jun
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
StonechatSaxicola rubicolaResidentCommon12–13 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Sand MartinRiparia ripariaPassage migrantCommon12–14 cmRegularly Apr–Jun
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos majorSummer visitorCommon23–26 cmRegularly Apr–Jul
Garden WarblerSylvia borinPassage migrantCommon14–15 cmRegularly May–Jun
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