Common Birds in Wales
Our list for Wales has 95 common birds recorded regularly there: 63 residents, 22 summer visitors and 10 winter visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Wales in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 95, most common first
CootFulica atraResidentCommon36–42 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian SkylarkAlauda arvensisSummer visitorCommon16–18 cmRecorded all year
Rock DoveColumba liviaResidentCommon29–37 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeWinter visitorCommon42–51 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Eurasian TealAnas creccaWinter visitorCommon34–38 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian JayGarrulus glandariusResidentCommon32–35 cmRecorded all year
WheatearOenanthe oenantheSummer visitorCommon15–16 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Great Crested GrebePodiceps cristatusResidentCommon46–51 cmRecorded all year
Tufted DuckAythya fuligulaResidentCommon40–47 cmRecorded all year
Red-billed ChoughPyrrhocorax pyrrhocoraxSummer visitorCommon39–43 cmRecorded all year
Common ShelduckTadorna tadornaResidentCommon58–67 cmRecorded all year
RedshankTringa totanusWinter visitorCommon27–29 cmRecorded all year
Little GrebeTachybaptus ruficollisResidentCommon23–29 cmRecorded all year
Common PheasantPhasianus colchicusResidentCommon50–90 cmRecorded all year
Northern GannetMorus bassanusSummer visitorCommon87–100 cmRegularly Feb–Dec
Sedge WarblerAcrocephalus schoenobaenusSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoResidentCommon30–32 cmRecorded all year
KestrelFalco tinnunculusResidentCommon32–39 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian NuthatchSitta europaeaResidentCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
BullfinchPyrrhula pyrrhulaResidentCommon15–17 cmRecorded all year
Grey WagtailMotacilla cinereaResidentCommon17–20 cmRecorded all year
GreenfinchChloris chlorisResidentCommon15–16 cmRecorded all year
Red KiteMilvus milvusResidentCommon60–66 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