Common Birds in West Dunbartonshire
Our list for West Dunbartonshire has 91 common birds recorded regularly there: 44 residents, 23 summer visitors, 3 winter visitors, 20 passage migrants and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in West Dunbartonshire in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 91, most common first
Rock DoveColumba liviaSummer visitorCommon29–37 cmRegularly Oct–Jul
TreecreeperCerthia familiarisSummer visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
ChiffchaffPhylloscopus collybitaSummer visitorCommon10–12 cmRegularly Mar–Aug
Eurasian OystercatcherHaematopus ostralegusSummer visitorCommon40–45 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifronsPassage migrantCommon64–81 cmRegularly Jan
DunnockPrunella modularisResidentCommon14–15 cmRegularly Oct–Jul
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoResidentCommon30–32 cmRegularly Jan–Sep
Grey HeronArdea cinereaResidentCommon90–98 cmRecorded all year
BuzzardButeo buteoSummer visitorCommon51–57 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
GoldcrestRegulus regulusSummer visitorCommon9–10 cmRegularly Apr–Jan
BlackcapSylvia atricapillaPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Jun
Long-tailed TitAegithalos caudatusSummer visitorCommon13–16 cmRegularly Jan–Nov
Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaeaResidentCommon12–15 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
Eurasian SiskinSpinus spinusSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
RookCorvus frugilegusResidentCommon45–47 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Song ThrushTurdus philomelosSummer visitorCommon20–23 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisWinter visitorCommon21–23 cmRegularly Jul–May
MoorhenGallinula chloropusResidentCommon30–38 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Common GullLarus canusResidentCommon40–46 cmRegularly Sep–Jul
StonechatSaxicola rubicolaSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly Jan–Sep
Whooper SwanCygnus cygnusPassage migrantCommon140–165 cmRegularly Feb
Great Spotted WoodpeckerDendrocopos majorSummer visitorCommon23–26 cmRegularly Jan–Oct
House MartinDelichon urbicumSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Aug
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





