Common Birds in Delaware
Our list for Delaware has 85 common birds recorded regularly there: 35 residents, 23 summer visitors, 24 winter visitors and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Delaware in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 85, most common first
Surf ScoterMelanitta perspicillataWinter visitorCommon48–60 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubrisSummer visitorCommon7–9 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipesSummer visitorCommon23–27 cmRecorded all year
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgianaWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensisResidentCommon45–65 cmRecorded all year
Short-billed DowitcherLimnodromus griseusSummer visitorCommon23–32 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
WilletTringa semipalmataSummer visitorCommon33–41 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatusWinter visitorCommon40–49 cmRegularly Nov–Mar
Northern PintailAnas acutaWinter visitorCommon59–76 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
DunlinCalidris alpinaResidentCommon16–22 cmRecorded all year
Common LoonGavia immerWinter visitorCommon66–91 cmRegularly Oct–May
Tundra SwanCygnus columbianusWinter visitorCommon120–150 cmRegularly Nov–Mar
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataWinter visitorCommon44–51 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Red-throated LoonGavia stellataWinter visitorCommon53–69 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Glossy IbisPlegadis falcinellusSummer visitorCommon48–66 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Northern Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestivaSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
SanderlingCalidris albaWinter visitorCommon18–20 cmRecorded all year
Least SandpiperCalidris minutillaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapillaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumResidentCommon15–18 cmRecorded all year
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatusResidentCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
American AvocetRecurvirostra americanaResidentCommon43–51 cmRecorded all year
Sharp-shinned HawkAccipiter striatusWinter visitorCommon24–34 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
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