Common Birds in North Ayrshire
Our list for North Ayrshire has 90 common birds recorded regularly there: 53 residents, 20 summer visitors, 14 winter visitors and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in North Ayrshire in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 90, most common first
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaSummer visitorCommon10–12 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
European ShagGulosus aristotelisResidentCommon65–80 cmRecorded all year
RookCorvus frugilegusResidentCommon45–47 cmRecorded all year
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisResidentCommon14–15 cmRecorded all year
Great TitParus majorResidentCommonRecorded all year
Mute SwanCygnus olorResidentCommon140–160 cmRecorded all year
Northern GannetMorus bassanusSummer visitorCommon87–100 cmRegularly Feb–Oct
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
RedshankTringa totanusWinter visitorCommon27–29 cmRegularly Jul–Apr
DunnockPrunella modularisResidentCommon14–15 cmRecorded all year
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 cmRecorded all year
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboResidentCommon80–100 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeWinter visitorCommon42–51 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenusSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
WhitethroatCurruca communisSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
Sand MartinRiparia ripariaSummer visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Mar–Aug
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Coal TitPeriparus aterResidentCommon10–12 cmRecorded all year
Ringed PloverCharadrius hiaticulaResidentCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
BuzzardButeo buteoResidentCommon51–57 cmRecorded all year
EiderSomateria mollissimaResidentCommon50–71 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