Common Birds in Michigan
Our list for Michigan has 75 common birds recorded regularly there: 29 residents, 26 summer visitors, 11 winter visitors and 9 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Michigan in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 75, most common first
GadwallMareca streperaWinter visitorCommon46–56 cmRecorded all year
American Black DuckAnas rubripesWinter visitorCommon54–59 cmRegularly Jul–Apr
Trumpeter SwanCygnus buccinatorResidentCommon139–157 cmRecorded all year
Common RedpollAcanthis flammeaWinter visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
OspreyPandion haliaetusSummer visitorCommon54–58 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Solitary SandpiperTringa solitariaPassage migrantCommon19–23 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
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