Common Birds in Texas
Our list for Texas has 58 common birds recorded regularly there: 27 residents, 10 summer visitors, 19 winter visitors and 2 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · Oct
Share of all bird records in Texas in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 58, most common first
DickcisselSpiza americanaSummer visitorCommon14–16 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Baltimore OrioleIcterus galbulaPassage migrantCommon17–19 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Common YellowthroatGeothlypis trichasResidentCommon11–13 cmRecorded all year
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Least SandpiperCalidris minutillaWinter visitorCommon13–15 cmRegularly Jul–May
White-crowned SparrowZonotrichia leucophrysWinter visitorCommon15–16 cmRegularly Oct–May
Song SparrowMelospiza melodiaWinter visitorCommon12–17 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Common GrackleQuiscalus quisculaResidentCommon28–34 cmRecorded all year
Eurasian TealAnas creccaWinter visitorCommon34–38 cmRegularly Aug–Apr
Greater YellowlegsTringa melanoleucaWinter visitorCommon29–40 cmRecorded all year
Nashville WarblerLeiothlypis ruficapillaWinter visitorCommon11–13 cmRegularly Sep–May
WilletTringa semipalmataResidentCommon33–41 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