Common Birds in South Dakota
Our list for South Dakota has 83 common birds recorded regularly there: 17 residents, 38 summer visitors, 20 winter visitors and 8 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in South Dakota in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 83, most common first
Canada GooseBranta canadensisResidentCommon76–110 cmRecorded all year
House SparrowPasser domesticusResidentCommon14–17 cmRecorded all year
Downy WoodpeckerDryobates pubescensWinter visitorCommon14–18 cmRecorded all year
American RobinTurdus migratoriusResidentCommon20–28 cmRecorded all year
Mourning DoveZenaida macrouraSummer visitorCommon23–34 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Red-winged BlackbirdAgelaius phoeniceusSummer visitorCommon17–23 cmRecorded all year
White-breasted NuthatchSitta carolinensisWinter visitorCommon13–14 cmRecorded all year
House FinchHaemorhous mexicanusWinter visitorCommon13–15 cmRecorded all year
Bald EagleHaliaeetus leucocephalusWinter visitorCommon70–102 cmRecorded all year
Barn SwallowHirundo rusticaSummer visitorCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Common GrackleQuiscalus quisculaSummer visitorCommon28–34 cmRegularly Mar–Dec
Blue JayCyanocitta cristataResidentCommon25–30 cmRecorded all year
Rough-legged HawkButeo lagopusWinter visitorCommon46–59 cmRegularly Nov–Mar
Common StarlingSturnus vulgarisResidentCommon21–23 cmRecorded all year
Western MeadowlarkSturnella neglectaSummer visitorCommon16–26 cmRegularly Mar–Jan
Eurasian Collared DoveStreptopelia decaoctoResidentCommon30–32 cmRecorded all year
Turkey VultureCathartes auraSummer visitorCommon62–81 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Red-tailed HawkButeo jamaicensisResidentCommon45–65 cmRecorded all year
Northern FlickerColaptes auratusResidentCommon28–31 cmRecorded all year
Ring-billed GullLarus delawarensisWinter visitorCommon43–54 cmRecorded all year
Hairy WoodpeckerLeuconotopicus villosusWinter visitorCommon18–26 cmRecorded all year
American CrowCorvus brachyrhynchosResidentCommon41–53 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