Common Birds in Connecticut
Our list for Connecticut has 72 common birds recorded regularly there: 30 residents, 26 summer visitors, 13 winter visitors and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Connecticut in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 72, most common first
Northern FlickerColaptes auratusResidentCommon28–31 cmRecorded all year
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerinaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbulaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly May–Sep
Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubrisSummer visitorCommon7–9 cmRegularly May–Sep
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
American Black DuckAnas rubripesWinter visitorCommon54–59 cmRecorded all year
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatusWinter visitorCommon40–49 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendulaPassage migrantCommon9–11 cmRegularly Sep–May
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensisResidentCommon45–65 cmRecorded all year
Great White EgretArdea albaSummer visitorCommon80–104 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Great Blue HeronArdea herodiasResidentCommon91–137 cmRecorded all year
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumSummer visitorCommon15–18 cmRecorded all year
Hairy WoodpeckerLeuconotopicus villosusResidentCommon18–26 cmRecorded all year
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgianaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialisResidentCommon16–21 cmRecorded all year
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serratorWinter visitorCommon52–58 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
Northern MockingbirdMimus polyglottosResidentCommon21–26 cmRecorded all year
OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapillaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
American RedstartSetophaga ruticillaSummer visitorCommon11–14 cmRegularly May–Oct
Great Black-backed GullLarus marinusResidentCommon64–79 cmRecorded all year
Turkey VultureCathartes auraResidentCommon62–81 cmRecorded all year
VeeryCatharus fuscescensSummer visitorCommon16–19 cmRegularly May–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