Common Birds in Falkirk
Our list for Falkirk has 92 common birds recorded regularly there: 51 residents, 16 summer visitors, 15 winter visitors, 9 passage migrants and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Falkirk in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 92, most common first
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian TealAnas creccaWinter visitorCommon34–38 cmRegularly Jul–May
Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchusWinter visitorCommon60–75 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
RedshankTringa totanusResidentCommon27–29 cmRecorded all year
Common PheasantPhasianus colchicusResidentCommon50–90 cmRecorded all year
Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenusSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
Eurasian OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegusResidentCommon40–45 cmRecorded all year
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboResidentCommon80–100 cmRecorded all year
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaWinter visitorCommon40–51 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
Common GullLarus canusResidentCommon40–46 cmRecorded all year
RedwingTurdus iliacusPassage migrantCommon20–24 cmRegularly Oct–Jan
Northern LapwingVanellus vanellusResidentCommon28–31 cmRecorded all year
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusResidentCommon14–16 cmRegularly Apr–Feb
CootFulica atraResidentCommon36–42 cmRecorded all year
MoorhenGallinula chloropusResidentCommon30–38 cmRecorded all year
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Sep
WhitethroatCurruca communisSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosaResidentCommon40–44 cmRegularly Apr–Feb
Taiga Bean GooseAnser fabalisWinter visitorCommon68–88 cmRegularly Oct–Feb
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly May–Aug
BuzzardButeo buteoResidentCommon51–57 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