Common Birds in Minnesota
Our list for Minnesota has 81 common birds recorded regularly there: 19 residents, 38 summer visitors, 18 winter visitors and 6 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Minnesota in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 81, most common first
Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronataSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Northern FlickerColaptes auratusResidentCommon28–31 cmRecorded all year
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Trumpeter SwanCygnus buccinatorResidentCommon139–157 cmRecorded all year
Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensisSummer visitorCommon20–24 cmRegularly May–Oct
Wood DuckAix sponsaSummer visitorCommon47–54 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumSummer visitorCommon15–18 cmRecorded all year
Northern Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestivaSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly May–Sep
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerinaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubrisSummer visitorCommon7–9 cmRegularly May–Sep
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arboreaWinter visitorCommon14–17 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatusResidentCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbulaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly May–Sep
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensisResidentCommon45–65 cmRecorded all year
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatusWinter visitorCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
American RedstartSetophaga ruticillaSummer visitorCommon11–14 cmRegularly May–Sep
Great Blue HeronArdea herodiasSummer visitorCommon91–137 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitusSummer visitorCommon17–22 cmRegularly May–Sep
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendulaPassage migrantCommon9–11 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Common MerganserMergus merganserWinter visitorCommon58–68 cmRecorded all year
Pine SiskinSpinus pinusWinter visitorCommon11–14 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Nashville WarblerLeiothlypis ruficapillaSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaWinter visitorCommon40–51 cmRegularly Oct–Jun
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