Common Birds in Maryland
Our list for Maryland has 61 common birds recorded regularly there: 30 residents, 17 summer visitors, 12 winter visitors and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Maryland in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 61, most common first
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendulaWinter visitorCommon9–11 cmRegularly Sep–May
Great Blue HeronArdea herodiasResidentCommon91–137 cmRecorded all year
Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubrisSummer visitorCommon7–9 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusResidentCommon70–102 cmRecorded all year
Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitusSummer visitorCommon17–22 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Fish CrowCorvus ossifragusResidentCommon36–41 cmRecorded all year
OspreyPandion haliaetusSummer visitorCommon54–58 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronataWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Sep–May
American RedstartSetophaga ruticillaSummer visitorCommon11–14 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatusResidentCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatusWinter visitorCommon40–49 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnoliaPassage migrantCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus variusWinter visitorCommon19–22 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbulaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgianaWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Great White EgretArdea albaSummer visitorCommon80–104 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusWinter visitorCommon53–65 cmRecorded all year
OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapillaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumResidentCommon15–18 cmRecorded all year
Hairy WoodpeckerLeuconotopicus villosusResidentCommon18–26 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