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
Grey PartridgePerdix perdixWinter visitorCommon28–32 cmRecorded all year
Ruddy DuckOxyura jamaicensisSummer visitorCommon35–43 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arboreaWinter visitorCommon14–17 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Gray CatbirdDumetella carolinensisSummer visitorCommon20–24 cmRegularly May–Oct
Great Horned OwlBubo virginianusWinter visitorCommon46–63 cmRecorded all year
Snow BuntingPlectrophenax nivalisWinter visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Franklin's GullLeucophaeus pipixcanSummer visitorCommon32–36 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Eurasian TealAnas creccaSummer visitorCommon34–38 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Common MerganserMergus merganserWinter visitorCommon58–68 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
Black TernChlidonias nigerSummer visitorCommon22–26 cmRegularly May–Sep
Turkey VultureCathartes auraSummer visitorCommon62–81 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatusSummer visitorCommon40–49 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Great Blue HeronArdea herodiasSummer visitorCommon91–137 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendulaPassage migrantCommon9–11 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleucaPassage migrantCommon29–40 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
Swainson's ThrushCatharus ustulatusPassage migrantCommon16–20 cmRegularly May–Sep
Lesser YellowlegsTringa flavipesSummer visitorCommon23–27 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Marsh WrenCistothorus palustrisSummer visitorCommon10–14 cmRegularly May–Oct
Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinusWinter visitorCommon23–26 cmRecorded all year
Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubrisSummer visitorCommon7–9 cmRegularly May–Sep
Northern CardinalCardinalis cardinalisWinter visitorCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Wood DuckAix sponsaSummer visitorCommon47–54 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Tundra SwanCygnus columbianusPassage migrantCommon120–150 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
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