Common Birds in Stirling
Our list for Stirling has 89 common birds recorded regularly there: 45 residents, 28 summer visitors, 12 winter visitors and 4 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Stirling in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 89, most common first
Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaeaResidentCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosResidentCommon20–23 cmRecorded all year
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
GoldcrestRegulus regulusResidentCommon9–10 cmRecorded all year
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
RookCorvus frugilegusResidentCommon45–47 cmRecorded all year
Black-headed GullChroicocephalus ridibundusResidentCommon38–44 cmRecorded all year
Pied WagtailMotacilla albaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRecorded all year
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinusResidentCommon11–13 cmRecorded all year
European Herring GullLarus argentatusResidentCommon55–67 cmRecorded all year
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhulaResidentCommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
CuckooCuculus canorusPassage migrantCommon32–34 cmRegularly Apr–Jun
FieldfareTurdus pilarisWinter visitorCommon22–27 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
TreecreeperCerthia familiarisResidentCommon12–14 cmRecorded all year
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegusSummer visitorCommon40–45 cmRegularly Nov–Aug
Common RavenCorvus coraxResidentCommon54–67 cmRecorded all year
Meadow PipitAnthus pratensisSummer visitorCommon14–15 cmRecorded all year
Common MerganserMergus merganserResidentCommon58–68 cmRecorded all year
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos majorResidentCommon23–26 cmRecorded all year
Great CormorantPhalacrocorax carboWinter visitorCommon80–100 cmRecorded all year
DipperCinclus cinclusWinter visitorCommon17–20 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