Common Birds in Kentucky
Our list for Kentucky has 60 common birds recorded regularly there: 29 residents, 13 summer visitors, 10 winter visitors and 8 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Kentucky in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 60, most common first
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerinaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensisResidentCommon45–65 cmRecorded all year
Great Blue HeronArdea herodiasResidentCommon91–137 cmRecorded all year
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialisResidentCommon16–21 cmRecorded all year
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Purple MartinProgne subisSummer visitorCommon18–20 cmRegularly Mar–Aug
Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitusSummer visitorCommon17–22 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensisSummer visitorCommon20–24 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnoliaPassage migrantCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatusResidentCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
American RedstartSetophaga ruticillaPassage migrantCommon11–14 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumResidentCommon15–18 cmRecorded all year
Great White EgretArdea albaSummer visitorCommon80–104 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbulaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisWinter visitorCommon43–54 cmRegularly Jul–Apr
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendulaWinter visitorCommon9–11 cmRegularly Sep–May
Tennessee WarblerLeiothlypis peregrinaPassage migrantCommon10–13 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Bay-breasted WarblerSetophaga castaneaPassage migrantCommon14–14 cmRegularly May–Oct
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podicepsWinter visitorCommon31–38 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Hairy WoodpeckerLeuconotopicus villosusResidentCommon18–26 cmRecorded all year
Swainson's ThrushCatharus ustulatusPassage migrantCommon16–20 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusWinter visitorCommon70–102 cmRecorded all year
Rock DoveColumba liviaResidentCommon29–37 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