Common Birds in Rhode Island
Our list for Rhode Island has 86 common birds recorded regularly there: 28 residents, 32 summer visitors, 23 winter visitors and 3 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Rhode Island in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 86, most common first
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasSummer visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly May–Oct
American Black DuckAnas rubripesWinter visitorCommon54–59 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Common LoonGavia immerWinter visitorCommon66–91 cmRecorded all year
Red-bellied WoodpeckerMelanerpes carolinusResidentCommon23–26 cmRecorded all year
White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensisResidentCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
Chipping SparrowSpizella passerinaSummer visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Apr–Nov
EiderSomateria mollissimaWinter visitorCommon50–71 cmRecorded all year
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbulaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Sep
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Great Blue HeronArdea herodiasResidentCommon91–137 cmRecorded all year
House FinchHaemorhous mexicanusResidentCommon13–15 cmRecorded all year
Semipalmated PloverCharadrius semipalmatusSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly May–Oct
Hooded MerganserLophodytes cucullatusWinter visitorCommon40–49 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
GoldeneyeBucephala clangulaWinter visitorCommon40–51 cmRegularly Nov–Mar
Cedar WaxwingBombycilla cedrorumSummer visitorCommon15–18 cmRecorded all year
Common TernSterna hirundoSummer visitorCommon31–35 cmRegularly May–Sep
Least SandpiperCalidris minutillaSummer visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly May–Sep
Great Crested FlycatcherMyiarchus crinitusSummer visitorCommon17–22 cmRegularly May–Sep
Swamp SparrowMelospiza georgianaWinter visitorCommon12–15 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
Semipalmated SandpiperCalidris pusillaSummer visitorCommon15–18 cmRegularly May–Oct
Mute SwanCygnus olorResidentCommon140–160 cmRecorded all year
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensisResidentCommon45–65 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