Common Birds in South Lanarkshire
Our list for South Lanarkshire has 88 common birds recorded regularly there: 50 residents, 25 summer visitors, 6 winter visitors and 7 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in South Lanarkshire in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 88, most common first
Eurasian TealAnas creccaResidentCommon34–38 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian SkylarkAlauda arvensisSummer visitorCommon16–18 cmRegularly Apr–Jul
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboWinter visitorCommon80–100 cmRegularly Aug–May
Eurasian JayGarrulus glandariusResidentCommon32–35 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhulaResidentCommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Common MerganserMergus merganserWinter visitorCommon58–68 cmRegularly Oct–Jun
Canada GooseBranta canadensisSummer visitorCommon76–110 cmRegularly Oct–Jul
DipperCinclus cinclusResidentCommon17–20 cmRegularly Apr–Jan
Common SnipeGallinago gallinagoSummer visitorCommon25–27 cmRegularly May–Dec
Tufted DuckAythya fuligulaResidentCommon40–47 cmRecorded all year
KestrelFalco tinnunculusWinter visitorCommon32–39 cmRegularly Jul–May
Common SwiftApus apusSummer visitorCommon16–17 cmRegularly May–Aug
TreecreeperCerthia familiarisResidentCommon12–14 cmRecorded all year
CurlewNumenius arquataSummer visitorCommon50–60 cmRegularly Feb–Oct
Green SandpiperTringa ochropusPassage migrantCommon21–24 cmRegularly Aug–Nov
GadwallMareca streperaSummer visitorCommon46–56 cmRegularly Feb–Nov
Pink-footed GooseAnser brachyrhynchusPassage migrantCommon60–75 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Whooper SwanCygnus cygnusPassage migrantCommon140–165 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeWinter visitorCommon42–51 cmRegularly Sep–May
Common GullLarus canusResidentCommon40–46 cmRegularly Sep–Jul
Reed BuntingEmberiza schoeniclusSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
Mistle ThrushTurdus viscivorusResidentCommon26–29 cmRegularly Sep–May
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoSummer visitorCommon30–32 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
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