Common Birds in Scottish Borders
Our list for Scottish Borders has 97 common birds recorded regularly there: 52 residents, 25 summer visitors, 11 winter visitors and 9 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Scottish Borders in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 97, most common first
Carrion CrowCorvus coroneResidentCommon45–47 cmRecorded all year
Blue TitCyanistes caeruleusResidentCommon11–12 cmRecorded all year
WoodpigeonColumba palumbusResidentCommon40–42 cmRecorded all year
ChaffinchFringilla coelebsResidentCommon14–16 cmRecorded all year
BlackbirdTurdus merulaResidentCommon24–25 cmRecorded all year
European RobinErithacus rubeculaResidentCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
JackdawColoeus monedulaResidentCommon34–39 cmRecorded all year
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaSummer visitorCommon10–12 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Great TitParus majorResidentCommonRecorded all year
Eurasian WrenTroglodytes troglodytesResidentCommon9–10 cmRecorded all year
European Herring GullLarus argentatusResidentCommon55–67 cmRecorded all year
Coal TitPeriparus aterResidentCommon10–12 cmRecorded all year
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
BuzzardButeo buteoResidentCommon51–57 cmRecorded all year
European GoldfinchCarduelis carduelisResidentCommon12–13 cmRecorded all year
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
DunnockPrunella modularisResidentCommon14–15 cmRecorded all year
Willow WarblerPhylloscopus trochilusSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 cmRecorded all year
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 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