Common Birds in New Mexico
Our list for New Mexico has 53 common birds recorded regularly there: 26 residents, 11 summer visitors and 16 winter visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in New Mexico in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 53, most common first
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisWinter visitorCommon43–54 cmRecorded all year
Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatusResidentCommon14–18 cmRecorded all year
Common MerganserMergus merganserWinter visitorCommon58–68 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Vesper SparrowPooecetes gramineusSummer visitorCommon13–17 cmRecorded all year
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Dec
Wood DuckAix sponsaResidentCommon47–54 cmRecorded all year
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescensResidentCommon14–18 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