Common Birds in United States
Our list for United States has 57 common birds recorded regularly there: 39 residents, 11 summer visitors and 7 winter visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in United States in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 57, most common first
Least SandpiperCalidris minutillaWinter visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Jul–May
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatusWinter visitorCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatusResidentCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
Wood DuckAix sponsaResidentCommon47–54 cmRecorded all year
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaWinter visitorCommon40–51 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
Palm WarblerSetophaga palmarumWinter visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Sep–May
OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapillaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Fish CrowCorvus ossifragusResidentCommon36–41 cmRecorded all year
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgianaResidentCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
GadwallMareca streperaResidentCommon46–56 cmRecorded all year
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataWinter visitorCommon44–51 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