Common Birds in North Lanarkshire
Our list for North Lanarkshire has 82 common birds recorded regularly there: 46 residents, 10 summer visitors, 11 winter visitors, 11 passage migrants and 4 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in North Lanarkshire in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 82, most common first
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaWinter visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Jul–May
Canada GooseBranta canadensisWinter visitorCommon76–110 cmRegularly Jun–Apr
Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytesSummer visitorCommon9–10 cmRegularly Jan–Nov
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaSummer visitorCommon10–12 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
BuzzardButeo buteoSummer visitorCommon51–57 cmRegularly Jan–Nov
CootFulica atraWinter visitorCommon36–42 cmRegularly Jun–Apr
MoorhenGallinula chloropusSummer visitorCommon30–38 cmRegularly Jan–Nov
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatusResidentCommon46–51 cmRegularly Jan–Jul
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
House SparrowPasser domesticusSummer visitorCommon14–17 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinusResidentCommon64–79 cmRegularly Sep–May
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Jul
RedwingTurdus iliacusPassage migrantCommon20–24 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly May–Jul
Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatusWinter visitorCommon13–16 cmRegularly Oct–Jul
Rock DoveColumba liviaResidentCommon29–37 cmRegularly Nov–Jul
WhitethroatCurruca communisPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Jun
DunnockPrunella modularisResidentCommon14–15 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
House MartinDelichon urbicumPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly Jun–Sep
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeWinter visitorCommon42–51 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosSummer visitorCommon20–23 cmRegularly Jan–Jul
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhulaResidentCommon15–17 cmRegularly Oct–May
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