Common Birds in Alabama
Our list for Alabama has 53 common birds recorded regularly there: 27 residents, 9 summer visitors, 13 winter visitors and 4 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Alabama in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 53, most common first
Song SparrowMelospiza melodiaWinter visitorCommon12–17 cmRecorded all year
Common GrackleQuiscalus quisculaResidentCommon28–34 cmRecorded all year
White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensisResidentCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisWinter visitorCommon43–54 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Canada GooseBranta canadensisResidentCommon76–110 cmRecorded all year
Fish CrowCorvus ossifragusResidentCommon36–41 cmRecorded all year
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatusResidentCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
OspreyPandion haliaetusResidentCommon54–58 cmRecorded all year
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podicepsWinter visitorCommon31–38 cmRecorded all year
Purple MartinProgne subisSummer visitorCommon18–20 cmRegularly Feb–Sep
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensisResidentCommon45–65 cmRecorded all year
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumWinter visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly Oct–May
American RedstartSetophaga ruticillaPassage migrantCommon11–14 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgianaWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus variusWinter visitorCommon19–22 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
Tennessee WarblerLeiothlypis peregrinaPassage migrantCommon10–13 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRecorded all year
Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatusWinter visitorCommon14–18 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Rose-breasted GrosbeakPheucticus ludovicianusPassage migrantCommon18–22 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusWinter visitorCommon70–102 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