Common Birds in Ohio
Our list for Ohio has 75 common birds recorded regularly there: 28 residents, 20 summer visitors, 14 winter visitors and 13 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Ohio in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 75, most common first
Yellow-rumped WarblerSetophaga coronataWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Sep–May
Northern FlickerColaptes auratusResidentCommon28–31 cmRecorded all year
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbulaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensisResidentCommon45–65 cmRecorded all year
Ruby-throated HummingbirdArchilochus colubrisSummer visitorCommon7–9 cmRegularly May–Sep
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerinaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusResidentCommon70–102 cmRecorded all year
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Eastern BluebirdSialia sialisResidentCommon16–21 cmRecorded all year
American Tree SparrowSpizelloides arboreaWinter visitorCommon14–17 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumSummer visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly May–Jan
Hairy WoodpeckerLeuconotopicus villosusResidentCommon18–26 cmRecorded all year
Great White EgretArdea albaSummer visitorCommon80–104 cmRegularly Mar–Nov
American Herring GullLarus smithsonianusResidentCommon53–65 cmRecorded all year
Ruby-crowned KingletCorthylio calendulaPassage migrantCommon9–11 cmRegularly Apr–Dec
Wood DuckAix sponsaSummer visitorCommon47–54 cmRecorded all year
Bonaparte's GullChroicocephalus philadelphiaPassage migrantCommon28–38 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
American RedstartSetophaga ruticillaSummer visitorCommon11–14 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Magnolia WarblerSetophaga magnoliaPassage migrantCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct
OspreyPandion haliaetusSummer visitorCommon54–58 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Bay-breasted WarblerSetophaga castaneaPassage migrantCommon14–14 cmRegularly May–Oct
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgianaResidentCommon12–15 cmRecorded all year
Purple MartinProgne subisSummer visitorCommon18–20 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
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