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 · Oct
Share of all bird records in Scottish Borders in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 97, most common first
BramblingFringilla montifringillaPassage migrantCommon14–16 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Common ScoterMelanitta nigraPassage migrantCommon43–54 cmRegularly Aug–Nov
Red-throated LoonGavia stellataResidentCommon53–69 cmRegularly Jul–Feb
Little AukAlle allePassage migrantCommon18–21 cmRegularly Nov
Arctic JaegerStercorarius parasiticusPassage migrantCommon41–46 cmRegularly Jul–Oct
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