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
SparrowhawkAccipiter nisusResidentCommon28–38 cmRecorded all year
Velvet ScoterMelanitta fuscaWinter visitorCommon51–58 cmRegularly Jul–May
Eurasian Tree SparrowPasser montanusResidentCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
SanderlingCalidris albaWinter visitorCommon18–20 cmRecorded all year
Grey WagtailMotacilla cinereaResidentCommon17–20 cmRecorded all year
Whooper SwanCygnus cygnusWinter visitorCommon140–165 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatusResidentCommon46–51 cmRecorded all year
Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorusResidentCommon26–29 cmRegularly Sep–Jul
Little GullHydrocoloeus minutusSummer visitorCommon25–30 cmRegularly May–Jan
WhimbrelNumenius phaeopusSummer visitorCommon40–46 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
TreecreeperCerthia familiarisResidentCommon12–14 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