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Top 100 Most Common Birds on Earth

Sunday, August 30, 2026

A past Centumth puzzle. Play it on this page with five guesses, or read the full Top 100 ranking below.

Birds of a feather. Ranked by estimated global population / abundance (yes, domestic chicken usually dominates — wild birds fill out the rest).

This list was researched and ranked by hand for Centumth. Entries near #1 are the names almost everyone thinks of first. Entries near #100 are true, a little obscure, and still fair if you think sideways. Sources below are the starting point — the final order can include small editorial calls so the daily puzzle stays balanced.

You can play this archive puzzle with five guesses, or reveal the complete ranking if you came here looking for the list. Revealing locks this puzzle — you won’t be able to play it afterward.

Sources

Outbound sources help you verify the ranking. The published order is Centumth’s.

The full Top 100

  1. #1Chicken
  2. #2House Sparrow
  3. #3European Starling
  4. #4Ring-billed Gull
  5. #5Barn Swallow
  6. #6Glaucous Gull
  7. #7Alder Flycatcher
  8. #8Black-legged Kittiwake
  9. #9Horned Lark
  10. #10Sooty Tern
  11. #11Savannah Sparrow
  12. #12American Robin
  13. #13Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
  14. #14Red-winged Blackbird
  15. #15Rook
  16. #16Eurasian Blackbird
  17. #17White Wagtail
  18. #18Common Wood-Pigeon
  19. #19Golden-crowned Kinglet
  20. #20Swainson's Thrush
  21. #21Rock Pigeon
  22. #22Dark-eyed Junco
  23. #23Chipping Sparrow
  24. #24Yellow-rumped Warbler
  25. #25Common Redpoll
  26. #26Brown Noddy
  27. #27Red-footed Booby
  28. #28Meadow Pipit
  29. #29Mourning Dove
  30. #30Masked Booby
  31. #31White-throated Sparrow
  32. #32Song Sparrow
  33. #33Western Meadowlark
  34. #34House Wren
  35. #35Northern Cardinal
  36. #36Eurasian Collared-Dove
  37. #37Black Noddy
  38. #38Common Grackle
  39. #39Eurasian Jackdaw
  40. #40Brown-headed Cowbird
  41. #41White-winged Crossbill
  42. #42Tennessee Warbler
  43. #43Mallard
  44. #44Cattle Egret
  45. #45White Tern
  46. #46Common House-Martin
  47. #47Arctic Tern
  48. #48Brown Skua
  49. #49Lapland Longspur
  50. #50Red-eyed Vireo
  51. #51Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  52. #52Common Swift
  53. #53Ring-necked Pheasant
  54. #54Red-tailed Tropicbird
  55. #55Northern Mockingbird
  56. #56Iceland Gull
  57. #57Black-capped Chickadee
  58. #58Cliff Swallow
  59. #59Brewer's Blackbird
  60. #60Franklin's Gull
  61. #61Yellow Warbler
  62. #62Red-necked Phalarope
  63. #63Lincoln's Sparrow
  64. #64Northern Pintail
  65. #65Snow Bunting
  66. #66White-crowned Sparrow
  67. #67Wedge-rumped Storm-Petrel
  68. #68Dovekie
  69. #69Red-billed Quelea
  70. #70Magnolia Warbler
  71. #71American Crow
  72. #72Ring-necked Duck
  73. #73Pine Siskin
  74. #74White-eyed Vireo
  75. #75Common Ground-Dove
  76. #76Herring Gull
  77. #77Indigo Bunting
  78. #78Canada Goose
  79. #79White-rumped Sandpiper
  80. #80Snow Goose
  81. #81Arctic Warbler
  82. #82Black Kite
  83. #83House Finch
  84. #84Townsend's Warbler
  85. #85Varied Thrush
  86. #86Little Stint
  87. #87Black-headed Gull
  88. #88Semipalmated Sandpiper
  89. #89Mew Gull
  90. #90Greater White-fronted Goose
  91. #91American Goldfinch
  92. #92Dunlin
  93. #93Black-winged Stilt
  94. #94Black Vulture
  95. #95Common Yellowthroat
  96. #96Eastern Phoebe
  97. #97Hermit Thrush
  98. #98Cedar Waxwing
  99. #99Eurasian Coot
  100. #100Laughing Gull

The full ranked list is included on this page. Use Reveal full 100 list to read it, or play the game above.