Common Birds in North Dakota
Our list for North Dakota has 97 common birds recorded regularly there: 7 residents, 45 summer visitors, 30 winter visitors and 15 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in North Dakota in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 97, most common first
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisSummer visitorCommon43–54 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly May–Oct
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Northern Yellow WarblerSetophaga aestivaSummer visitorCommon12–13 cmRegularly May–Sep
Rough-legged HawkButeo lagopusWinter visitorCommon46–59 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Song SparrowMelospiza melodiaSummer visitorCommon12–17 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerinaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronataPassage migrantCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaWinter visitorCommon40–51 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataSummer visitorCommon44–51 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Northern PintailAnas acutaSummer visitorCommon59–76 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Sep
Snow GooseAnser caerulescensPassage migrantCommon69–84 cmRegularly Oct–Jun
Western KingbirdTyrannus verticalisSummer visitorCommon20–24 cmRegularly May–Sep
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumResidentCommon15–18 cmRecorded all year
Cackling GooseBranta hutchinsiiWinter visitorCommon53–76 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
BobolinkDolichonyx oryzivorusSummer visitorCommon16–20 cmRegularly May–Aug
GadwallMareca streperaSummer visitorCommon46–56 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Common RavenCorvus coraxWinter visitorCommon54–67 cmRecorded all year
Clay-colored SparrowSpizella pallidaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Oct
Greater White-fronted GooseAnser albifronsPassage migrantCommon64–81 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Least FlycatcherEmpidonax minimusSummer visitorCommon12–14 cmRegularly May–Sep
Orange-crowned WarblerLeiothlypis celataPassage migrantCommon11–14 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