Common Birds in Renfrewshire
Our list for Renfrewshire has 82 common birds recorded regularly there: 49 residents, 10 summer visitors, 15 winter visitors and 8 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Renfrewshire in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 82, most common first
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Nov–Jul
Eurasian OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegusResidentCommon40–45 cmRecorded all year
BuzzardButeo buteoResidentCommon51–57 cmRecorded all year
TreecreeperCerthia familiarisWinter visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 cmRegularly Oct–Jul
Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaeaResidentCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly May–Aug
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Jan–Nov
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataResidentCommon44–51 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
FieldfareTurdus pilarisWinter visitorCommon22–27 cmRegularly Nov–Feb
CootFulica atraResidentCommon36–42 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoResidentCommon30–32 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinusResidentCommon11–13 cmRecorded all year
Whooper SwanCygnus cygnusWinter visitorCommon140–165 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Common SnipeGallinago gallinagoResidentCommon25–27 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisPassage migrantCommon14–15 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
EiderSomateria mollissimaResidentCommon50–71 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
RedshankTringa totanusWinter visitorCommon27–29 cmRegularly Jul–Apr
GoldcrestRegulus regulusWinter visitorCommon9–10 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
SparrowhawkAccipiter nisusWinter visitorCommon28–38 cmRegularly Jun–Apr
Common SandpiperActitis hypoleucosPassage migrantCommon18–20 cmRegularly May–Aug
Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorusResidentCommon26–29 cmRegularly Nov–Jun
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinusWinter visitorCommon64–79 cmRegularly Aug–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