Common Birds in Perthshire and Kinross
Our list for Perthshire and Kinross has 94 common birds recorded regularly there: 64 residents, 18 summer visitors, 8 winter visitors and 4 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Perthshire and Kinross in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 94, most common first
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 cmRecorded all year
Common PheasantPhasianus colchicusResidentCommon50–90 cmRecorded all year
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaSummer visitorCommon10–12 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly May–Sep
Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinusResidentCommon11–13 cmRecorded all year
European Herring GullLarus argentatusResidentCommon55–67 cmRecorded all year
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaResidentCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
RookCorvus frugilegusResidentCommon45–47 cmRecorded all year
Tufted DuckAythya fuligulaResidentCommon40–47 cmRecorded all year
Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatusResidentCommon13–16 cmRecorded all year
Whooper SwanCygnus cygnusResidentCommon140–165 cmRecorded all year
Common GullLarus canusResidentCommon40–46 cmRecorded all year
Lesser Black-backed GullLarus fuscusSummer visitorCommon52–64 cmRegularly Jan–Nov
Eurasian TealAnas creccaWinter visitorCommon34–38 cmRecorded all year
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisSummer visitorCommon14–15 cmRecorded all year
RedwingTurdus iliacusWinter visitorCommon20–24 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Greylag GooseAnser anserResidentCommon75–90 cmRecorded all year
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboWinter visitorCommon80–100 cmRecorded all year
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
TreecreeperCerthia familiarisResidentCommon12–14 cmRecorded all year
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos majorResidentCommon23–26 cmRecorded all year
CootFulica atraResidentCommon36–42 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