Common Birds in North Carolina
Our list for North Carolina has 55 common birds recorded regularly there: 27 residents, 13 summer visitors, 12 winter visitors and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in North Carolina in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 55, most common first
American RedstartSetophaga ruticillaSummer visitorCommon11–14 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Common GrackleQuiscalus quisculaResidentCommon28–34 cmRecorded all year
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Mar–Sep
Fish CrowCorvus ossifragusResidentCommon36–41 cmRecorded all year
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisWinter visitorCommon43–54 cmRegularly Jul–May
Yellow-bellied SapsuckerSphyrapicus variusWinter visitorCommon19–22 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Pileated WoodpeckerDryocopus pileatusResidentCommon40–49 cmRecorded all year
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceusResidentCommon17–23 cmRecorded all year
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Great White EgretArdea albaResidentCommon80–104 cmRecorded all year
Hermit ThrushCatharus guttatusWinter visitorCommon14–18 cmRegularly Oct–Jul
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
OspreyPandion haliaetusSummer visitorCommon54–58 cmRecorded all year
Palm WarblerSetophaga palmarumWinter visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly Sep–May
Pied-billed GrebePodilymbus podicepsWinter visitorCommon31–38 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Purple MartinProgne subisSummer visitorCommon18–20 cmRegularly Mar–Aug
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgianaWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatusWinter visitorCommon40–49 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnoliaPassage migrantCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct
OvenbirdSeiurus aurocapillaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensisResidentCommon45–65 cmRecorded all year
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusWinter visitorCommon70–102 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