Common Birds in Fife
Our list for Fife has 103 common birds recorded regularly there: 70 residents, 19 summer visitors, 13 winter visitors and 1 passage migrant
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Fife in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 103, most common first
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
JackdawColoeus monedulaResidentCommon34–39 cmRecorded all year
Sandwich TernThalasseus sandvicensisSummer visitorCommon36–41 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
Rock DoveColumba liviaResidentCommon29–37 cmRecorded all year
Northern GannetMorus bassanusSummer visitorCommon87–100 cmRecorded all year
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly May–Aug
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaWinter visitorCommon40–51 cmRegularly Sep–May
Common GullLarus canusResidentCommon40–46 cmRecorded all year
DunnockPrunella modularisResidentCommon14–15 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian SkylarkAlauda arvensisResidentCommon16–18 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeWinter visitorCommon42–51 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilusSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
BuzzardButeo buteoResidentCommon51–57 cmRecorded all year
Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchusWinter visitorCommon60–75 cmRegularly Sep–May
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Mute SwanCygnus olorResidentCommon140–160 cmRecorded all year
WhitethroatCurruca communisSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Coal TitPeriparus aterResidentCommon10–12 cmRecorded all year
RookCorvus frugilegusResidentCommon45–47 cmRecorded all year
Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenusSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
FulmarFulmarus glacialisResidentCommon45–50 cmRegularly Nov–Sep
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