Common Birds in Arkansas
Our list for Arkansas has 58 common birds recorded regularly there: 26 residents, 11 summer visitors, 17 winter visitors and 4 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Arkansas in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 58, most common first
Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronataWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Oct–May
Song SparrowMelospiza melodiaWinter visitorCommon12–17 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitusSummer visitorCommon17–22 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Common GrackleQuiscalus quisculaResidentCommon28–34 cmRecorded all year
Fish CrowCorvus ossifragusSummer visitorCommon36–41 cmRecorded all year
Scissor-tailed FlycatcherTyrannus forficatusSummer visitorCommon28–38 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podicepsWinter visitorCommon31–38 cmRegularly Jul–May
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendulaWinter visitorCommon9–11 cmRegularly Sep–May
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerinaResidentCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisWinter visitorCommon43–54 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusWinter visitorCommon70–102 cmRecorded all year
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Purple MartinProgne subisSummer visitorCommon18–20 cmRegularly Mar–Aug
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus variusWinter visitorCommon19–22 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensisSummer visitorCommon20–24 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
DickcisselSpiza americanaSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgianaWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Least SandpiperCalidris minutillaPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumWinter visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly Sep–May
GadwallMareca streperaWinter visitorCommon46–56 cmRegularly Jul–Apr
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbulaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
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