Common Birds in Mississippi
Our list for Mississippi has 64 common birds recorded regularly there: 33 residents, 8 summer visitors, 19 winter visitors and 4 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Mississippi in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 64, most common first
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Northern FlickerColaptes auratusWinter visitorCommon28–31 cmRecorded all year
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensisResidentCommon45–65 cmRecorded all year
Canada GooseBranta canadensisResidentCommon76–110 cmRecorded all year
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgianaWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
OspreyPandion haliaetusResidentCommon54–58 cmRecorded all year
Common GrackleQuiscalus quisculaResidentCommon28–34 cmRecorded all year
Song SparrowMelospiza melodiaWinter visitorCommon12–17 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podicepsWinter visitorCommon31–38 cmRegularly Jul–Apr
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerinaResidentCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRecorded all year
Purple MartinProgne subisSummer visitorCommon18–20 cmRegularly Feb–Sep
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatusResidentCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
Red-headed WoodpeckerMelanerpes erythrocephalusResidentCommon19–23 cmRecorded all year
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumWinter visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly Nov–May
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusWinter visitorCommon70–102 cmRecorded all year
Forster's TernSterna forsteriResidentCommon33–36 cmRecorded all year
Prothonotary WarblerProtonotaria citreaSummer visitorCommon13–14 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Rock DoveColumba liviaResidentCommon29–37 cmRecorded all year
WilletTringa semipalmataResidentCommon33–41 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoResidentCommon30–32 cmRecorded all year
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatusWinter visitorCommon40–49 cmRegularly Nov–Mar
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