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
Chestnut-sided WarblerSetophaga pensylvanicaSummer visitorCommon10–14 cmRegularly May–Sep
White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrysPassage migrantCommon15–16 cmRegularly Sep–May
Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnoliaSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Sep
Clay-colored SparrowSpizella pallidaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
OspreyPandion haliaetusSummer visitorCommon54–58 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Eurasian TealAnas creccaSummer visitorCommon34–38 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
Lincoln's SparrowMelospiza lincolniiPassage migrantCommon13–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisWinter visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Swainson's ThrushCatharus ustulatusSummer visitorCommon16–20 cmRegularly May–Oct
DickcisselSpiza americanaSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly May–Aug
Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatusSummer visitorCommon14–18 cmRegularly Apr–Jan
Broad-winged HawkButeo platypterusSummer visitorCommon34–44 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